netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/8] rust: Add IO polling

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Message-Id: <20241023.130152.200800395770389333.fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:01:52 +0900 (JST)
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>
To: andrew@...n.ch, anna-maria@...utronix.de, frederic@...nel.org,
 tglx@...utronix.de, jstultz@...gle.com, sboyd@...nel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/8] rust: Add IO polling

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:26:54 +0200
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 12:52:05PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>> polls periodically until a condition is met or a timeout is reached.
>> By using the function, the 8th patch fixes QT2025 PHY driver to sleep
>> until the hardware becomes ready.
>> 
>> As a result of the past discussion, this introduces a new type
>> representing a span of time instead of using core::time::Duration or
>> time::Ktime.
>> 
>> Unlike the old rust branch, This adds a wrapper for fsleep() instead
>> of msleep(). fsleep() automatically chooses the best sleep method
>> based on a duration.
> 
> This patchset is > 95% time handling, and only a small part
> networking. So i'm not sure netdev is the correct subsystem to merge
> this.

The time handling code became much bigger than I expected.

I'll send the next version for the tip tree.

TIME-KEEPING/TIMERS maintainers, would you prefer this to go through
the rust tree?