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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 5 months ago

I wonder what is the policy of putting something to scripts/ (not to vmlinux) that is written with #Rust? I.e. build time utility. Just curious.

And actually, since bindgen is installed from crates.io, not from kernel tree, should it be actually submitted there, and not to the kernel tree?

Kernel documentation gives pretty bad rationale for bindgen being in Cargo: “The bindings to the C side of the kernel are generated at build time using the bindgen tool. A particular version is required.” I’m sure there are good reasons to install it using cargo but why the documentation does not list those reasons, no matter how obvious they might be to some.

So I guess I put my build time tool to crates.io because at least first it is an experiment, and secondly bindgen is managed like this. But even this does not conclude the story fully. I have no idea in what license that out-of-tree pulled build-time utility is expected to be. It is not documented, or at least I cannot find it documented anywhere.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Can't probably go wrong with GPLv2 I guess.
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