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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support
    On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:01 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
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    > No objections to any of this. I love the idea of being able to write
    > filesystems in Rust. I just think it would go more smoothly if
    > linux-fsdevel were involved more closely so people at least have the
    > option of being able to follow design decisions, and hopefully influence
    > them. That goes both ways, of course; I hardly think our current
    > operations structures are the optimum way to implement a filesystem,
    > and having fresh eyes say things like "But that shouldn't be part of the
    > address_space_operations" can impel better abstractions.

    I will send the patches to fsdevel then!

    As for following development closely and design decisions, we have
    been doing it in GitHub so far pre-merge, so the easiest until the
    merge (for us) would be to ping you there. We can also send you copies
    of the `fs` related patches too if you would like that. I would highly
    recommend joining the monthly informal calls too.

    (I appreciate the kind answer, by the way!)

    > The obvious answer is to split out the 'fs module' into its own patch
    > ;-) I presume it was part of the kernel crate which would have been
    > either patch 17 or 11 in that series?

    Yeah, patch 17, exactly (patch 11 is the `alloc` import). I have asked
    Konstantin privately about them.

    In any case, I will split the patches further for v9 which should help.

    Meanwhile, you can also see the `fs` module here, if you are curious:

    https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/rust-next/rust/kernel/fs.rs
    https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/rust-next/rust/kernel/fs/param.rs

    Cheers,
    Miguel

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