Re: Assisting with kernel Rust development

Alex Gaynor <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:23:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.newbie
Message-ID <CAFRnB2WMuOjP0S5vvCa9w1Wi67K+3XcBsZ+QxxQ2gvo4-2mOEw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Amy,

Glad to hear you're interested! We've got a whole bunch of open bugs
on https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues, so that's always a
starting point for looking for things to work on.

Cheers,
Alex

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:19 PM Amy Parker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before under my previous email address <[email protected]>.
>
> It's been a while since I've attempted to contribute to the kernel, so I figured I'd post here. My previous attempt had been under Matthew Wilcox's direction to modify the DAX driver for NVDIMMs to use XA_ZERO_ENTRY to represent a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constant) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted with the value presented by XA_ZERO_ENTRY.
>
> I saw the recent patch sequence adding Rust support to the kernel. As a Rust developer, I figured I could get back into kernel development because of this, and was wondering how I could help. Are there any active objectives that need work?
>


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