netdev - Re: Seeking guidance on Rust porting for network driver as a learning project

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Message-Id: <CE8FAE9A-CC93-4C91-AC07-B6C43B073CDA@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:27:53 -0300
From: Guilherme Novaes Lima <acc.guilhermenl@...il.com>
To: andrew@...n.ch
Cc: acc.guilhermenl@...il.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seeking guidance on Rust porting for network driver as a learning
 project

Hi Andrew,

> Another idea might be an Ethernet switch which is not supported by DSA
> at the moment.

Thank you for your reply. The ideal would be to do something simple, the actual implementation of the driver would be the secondary focus of the research. What I originally intended to do was to port over r8169, I didn’t have switches in mind. Do you think that would be too hard? Sorry for my inexperience, I’m a complete noob when it comes to kernel / driver development, so I thank you again for your patience and generosity.