[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Rust

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Miguel,

On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 10:33:01PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> The effort to add Rust support to the kernel is ongoing. There has
> been progress in different areas during the last year, and there are
> several topics that could benefit from discussion:
> 
>   - Dividing the `kernel` crate into pieces, dependency management
> between internal crates, writing crates in the rest of the kernel
> tree, etc.
> 
>   - Whether to allow dependencies on external crates and vendoring of
> useful third-party crates.
> 
>   - Toolchain requirements in the future and status of Rust unstable features.
> 
>   - The future of GCC builds: upcoming compilers, their status and
> ETAs, adding the kernel as a testing case for them...
> 
>   - Steps needed for further integration in the different kernel CIs,
> running tests, etc.
> 
>   - Documentation setup on kernel.org and integration between
> Sphinx/kernel-doc and rustdoc (this can be part of the documentation
> tech topic submitted earlier by Jon).
> 
>   - Discussion with prospective maintainers that want to use Rust for
> their subsystem.

All previous topics but this one are technical. To restore the balance a
bit (and also because I believe it's important to the success of this
project :-)), I'd like to also discuss the impact on the kernel
maintenance at large, beyond just the maintainers who opt in to be early
adopters of rust in their subsystem.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart