[PATCH v10 0/7] Rust Abstractions for PWM subsystem with TH1520 PWM driver

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Thu Jul 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM CEST, Michal Wilczynski wrote:
> I was hoping you could clarify the intended merge path for this series,
> as it introduces changes to both the Rust and PWM subsystems.
>
> Is the expectation that the Rust maintainers will take the abstraction
> patches into the Rust tree first? Or would Uwe, as the PWM maintainer,
> pull the entire series? Any guidance on the coordination would be very
> helpful.

Except for the helpers I only see PWM code, so this is fully on Uwe's purview I
think.

I see that there is a new MAINTAINERS entry:

	PWM SUBSYSTEM BINDINGS [RUST]
	M:	Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski at samsung.com>
	S:	Maintained
	F:	rust/helpers/pwm.c
	F:	rust/kernel/pwm.rs

I assume this is agreed with Uwe?

In case there's no agreement yet, the typical options are:

  1) Maintain the Rust abstractions as part of the existing MAINTAINERS entry.
     Optionally, the author can be added as another maintainer or reviewer.

  2) Add a separate MAINTAINERS entry; patches / PRs still go through the same
     subsystem tree.

  3) Add a separate MAINTAINERS entry; patches don't go through the subsystem
     tree (e.g. because the subsystem maintainers don't want to deal with it).

I don't recommend (3), since it's really just a fallback.

The above looks like (2). In this case I recommend to also add the C maintainers
as reviewers, such that they can easily follow along and specifiy the tree (T:).

But, of course, that's up to you and Uwe.

> I understand that it may be too late in the development cycle to merge
> the full series. If that's the case, perhaps patch 2 could be considered
> on its own, as it hasn't received comments in the last couple of
> revisions. As another possibility, patch 1 and patch 3 are dependent on
> each other and could be applied as a pair, depending on your assessment.
>
> The RISC-V driver itself would need to wait for the IoMem series merge [1].
>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250704-topics-tyr-platform_iomem-v12-0-1d3d4bd8207d@collabora.com/
>
> Best regards,