[PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Rockchip PHY driver

Dragan Simic dsimic at manjaro.org
Thu Feb 1 12:17:08 PST 2024


On 2024-02-01 19:23, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Christina Quast wrote:
>> This is the Rust implementation of drivers/net/phy/rockchip.c. The
>> features are equivalent. You can choose C or Rust version kernel
>> configuration.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christina Quast <contact at christina-quast.de>
> 
> Cool, but why?  Is this going to happen for all phy drivers going
> forward?  What's the end-game here, dropping all .c phy drivers that
> are in rust?  Or having duplicates for all of them?

I'd also like to know what's the intended purpose of rewriting a mature
existing PHY driver in Rust?



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