[RFC PATCH] drm: panthor: add dev_coredumpv support

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 08:17:03 UTC 2024


On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 2:48 AM Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think I'm on the uapi should remain in C for now, we define uapi
> types with the kernel types and we have downstream tools to scan and
> parse them to deal with alignments and padding (I know FEX relies on
> it), so I think we should be bindgen from uapi headers into rust for
> now. There might be a future where this changes, but that isn't now
> and I definitely don't want to mix C and rust uapi in one driver.

Agreed, I think with what you say here (changes required to external
tooling), even if the generation was done by `rustc` itself and
guaranteed to be stable, it would still be impractical at this point
in time.

Cheers,
Miguel


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