Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: parse structs via zerocopy

On 2026-06-23 at 07:02 +1000, Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]> wrote...
> On Mon Jun 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM CEST, Nicolás Antinori wrote:
> > I did my work on rust-next [1] because drm-rust-next does not have the
> > zerocopy crate present yet [2]. linux-next contains both zerocopy [3] 
> > and the new users of transmute::FromBytes if I am not mistaken (BitToken,
> > PciRomHeader, and PmuLookupTableEntry), so I can make the changes there.
> 
> The drm-rust tree is a bit special, as it remains open for contributions even
> after it has been tagged for inclusion into Linus's (including throughout the
> merge window). However, all changes staged in drm-rust-next are not going into
> linux-next until -rc1 is released.
> 
> IOW, until -rc1 is released this may or may not resolve all conflicts with
> drm-rust-next. Once -rc1 is released, it is backmerged into drm-rust-next and
> drm-rust-next is picked up by linux-next again.
> 
> Usually all of this remains rather transparent to contributors, but you hit the
> case of using a new feature introduced through another tree before drm-rust-next
> caught up with Linus's tree (which will happen next Sunday).
> 
> Before drm-rust-next caught up, this patch can't be applied anyways, so all
> good.
> 
> > I am fairly new to kernel development, I apologize for the mix-up.
> 
> No worries, you did nothing wrong; thanks for the contribution!

Yes sorry if I gave the impression you did something wrong - this also took me
a moment to untangle as an experienced contributor so perfectly understandable.
Appreciate your contribution and hope to see more of them in future.

 - Alistair

> - Danilo