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H A D | rust_is_available_test.py | diff 63b27f4a0074bc6ef987a44ee9ad8bf960b568c2 Tue Jul 09 18:06:01 CEST 2024 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> rust: start supporting several compiler versions
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since there may be important features coming into the language that improve how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes -- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that, in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1] Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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H A D | rust_is_available.sh | diff 63b27f4a0074bc6ef987a44ee9ad8bf960b568c2 Tue Jul 09 18:06:01 CEST 2024 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> rust: start supporting several compiler versions
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since there may be important features coming into the language that improve how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes -- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that, in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1] Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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H A D | quick-start.rst | diff 63b27f4a0074bc6ef987a44ee9ad8bf960b568c2 Tue Jul 09 18:06:01 CEST 2024 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> rust: start supporting several compiler versions
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since there may be important features coming into the language that improve how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes -- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that, in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1] Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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H A D | changes.rst | diff 63b27f4a0074bc6ef987a44ee9ad8bf960b568c2 Tue Jul 09 18:06:01 CEST 2024 Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> rust: start supporting several compiler versions
It is time to start supporting several Rust compiler versions and thus establish a minimum Rust version.
We may still want to upgrade the minimum sometimes in the beginning since there may be important features coming into the language that improve how we write code (e.g. field projections), which may or may not make sense to support conditionally.
We will start with a window of two stable releases, and widen it over time. Thus this patch does not move the current minimum (1.78.0), but instead adds support for the recently released 1.79.0.
This should already be enough for kernel developers in distributions that provide recent Rust compiler versions routinely, such as Arch Linux, Debian Unstable (outside the freeze period), Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux (especially the testing channel), Nix (unstable) and openSUSE Tumbleweed. See the documentation patch about it later in this series.
In addition, Rust for Linux is now being built-tested in Rust's pre-merge CI [1]. That is, every change that is attempting to land into the Rust compiler is tested against the kernel, and it is merged only if it passes -- thanks to the Rust project for that!
Thus, with the pre-merge CI in place, both projects hope to avoid unintentional changes to Rust that break the kernel. This means that, in general, apart from intentional changes on their side (that we will need to workaround conditionally on our side), the upcoming Rust compiler versions should generally work.
For instance, currently, the beta (1.80.0) and nightly (1.81.0) branches work as well.
Of course, the Rust for Linux CI job in the Rust toolchain may still need to be temporarily disabled for different reasons, but the intention is to help bring Rust for Linux into stable Rust.
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/125209 [1] Reviewed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.dev> Tested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240709160615.998336-7-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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