[PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Tue Aug 2 22:26:47 AEST 2022


On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 03:49:47AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Some of the improvements to the abstractions and example drivers are:
> 
>   - Filesystem support (`fs` module), including:
> 
>       + `INode` type (which wraps `struct inode`).
>       + `DEntry` type (which wraps `struct dentry`).
>       + `Filename` type (which wraps `struct filename`).
>       + `Registration` type.
>       + `Type` and `Context` traits.
>       + `SuperBlock` type (which wraps `struct super_block` and takes
>         advantage of typestates for its initialization).
>       + File system parameters support (with a `Value` enum; `Spec*`
>         and `Constant*` types, `define_fs_params!` macro...).
>       + File system flags.
>       + `module_fs!` macro to simplify registering kernel modules that
>         only implement a single file system.
>       + A file system sample.

None of this (afaict) has been discussed on linux-fsdevel.  And I may
have missed somethiing, but I don't see the fs module in this series
of patches.  Could linux-fsdevel be cc'd on the development of Rust
support for filesystems in the future?


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