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Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust
Date 2025-02-26 19:20 +0100
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On Wed, 2025-02-26 at 13:40 +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> wrote:
> > 
> > As for the actual contents of the package, the Rust bits, they are
> > binary files (and include an actual shared library), so my reasoning was
> > that they should belong to a different package than
> > linux-headers-@abiname@@localversion@, and be installed under /usr/lib
> > instead of /usr/src. This is what's currently being done for the kbuild
> > files.
> 
> Yeah, there are different viewpoints.
> 
> The `.rmeta` are binary, in that they cannot be easily read at all,
> but on the other hand they are not fully build object files either.
> They are acting here like C headers, i.e. containing the same sort of
> information from other TUs/dependencies, so in that sense it makes
> sense for them to be there.
> 
> The `.so` is definitely a built binary, but it is also "like a header"
> in the sense that it contains macros that in the C world would have
> been in a header.
[...]

This shouldn't go in a linux-headers package, because we aim to support
cross-builds of modules.  If it doesn't depend on the kernel
configuration (aside from CONFIG_RUST being enabled) then it belongs in
linux-kbuild.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken

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Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 01:30 +0100
  Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-02-26 12:50 +0100
    Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 13:20 +0100
      Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-26 14:00 +0100
        Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 15:20 +0100
          Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-26 19:30 +0100
            Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 22:00 +0100
              Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-27 18:40 +0100
        Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written  in Rust Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-02-26 19:20 +0100
          Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 19:30 +0100
            Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-26 20:10 +0100
              Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 20:20 +0100
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-27 18:40 +0100
              Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-02 23:00 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-02 23:30 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-02 23:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-03 00:50 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-03 16:50 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-03 19:30 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-03 21:00 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-04-03 23:30 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-03 23:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-04-06 23:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-12 18:50 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-13 13:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-13 17:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 18:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-04-13 20:30 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written  in Rust Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-04-16 17:40 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-05-03 17:10 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-04-04 11:20 +0200
                Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-04-06 23:40 +0200
          Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> - 2025-02-26 19:40 +0100
      Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> - 2025-02-26 14:40 +0100
      Re: Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in  Rust Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-02-26 14:40 +0100

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