Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rust: time: New module for timekeeping functions | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:33:03 +0100 |
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Lina !
On Wed, Feb 22 2023 at 13:56, Asahi Lina wrote: > On 22/02/2023 04.00, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Be aware that my Rust foo is not even rusty it's close to non-existant. >> That's probaly true for many maintainers you need to interact with. > > Please do feel free to reach out and ask any questions about all this > crazy Rust stuff stuff! We're here to help and I know this is all new to > a lot of maintainers. I want people to be comfortable that we aren't > just creating more maintenance burden for everyone else.
I can only speak for myself. I'm comfortable and sufficiently curious about this particular flavour of crazy.
I don't think these abstractions are a huge burden as long as the folks who implement them talk to the relevant maintainers so we don't end up with Rust inflicted burdens or ill defined abstractions.
> That's also another conversation that we probably need to have, how do > we handle maintainership of Rust abstractions? I think Miguel mentioned > that ideally existing subsystem maintainers take over their bits of the > Rust side too over time, but of course a lot of people aren't going to > be comfortable with that if they don't have a lot of Rust experience > yet... personally I'm happy to sign up as co-maintainer or supporter of > the abstractions I contribute, or maybe we can just pool resources and > have people interested in Rust agree to help support this stuff for > every subsystem?
Having subsystem maintainer teams supplemented with a Rust wizard, is probably the best option at the moment. Time will tell as always.
Thanks,
tglx
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