Re: [RFC 0/2] RISC-V: enable rust

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 16:00:51 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 09:42:08PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Hi Conor,
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 2:37 PM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is a somewhat blind (and maybe foolish) attempt at enabling Rust
> > for RISC-V. I've tested this on Icicle, and the modules seem to work.
> > I'd like to play around with Rust on RISC-V, but I'm not interested in
> > using downstream kernels, so figured I should try and see what's
> > missing...
> > I've tagged this as RFC in case I've missed some "WAaaaa you can't do
> > this" somewhere :)
>
> Thanks for sending this and taking the lead on RISC-V

Meh, far from it. I'm just trying to get the ball rolling if it really
is as trivial as this seems.

> I appreciate
> you put me as the author, but in this case, it was actually Gary that
> started the RISC-V port [1], and then I sent three PRs on top later
> on.

The stuff that I have lifted here all had you as the sole author in the
"rust" branch downstream, which is why I gave you authorship. Namely:
afba78eacb9b ("rust: generate target specification files on the fly")
732b3c386328 ("rust: target: remove `cpu`")

I don't see anything from [1] in these commits, so I don't think that I
made a mistake here.

> When submitting something on behalf of somebody else, I suggest being
> very careful and ideally contacting the authors beforehand. In
> particular, if there has been any modification (including to the
> commit message), then a note should be added explaining so.

It's RFC for a reason, I've had a poor track record with off-list emails
to people that do not know me so would rather do it this way :)
Probably should have noted that I wrote the ~placeholder commit messages
though, apologies. I'll sort that out for a potential v1.

> Therefore, please double-check everybody that contributed to the lines
> you are sending (e.g. via `git-blame`) and add them as

That's what I did! Unless I missed something that was non-obvious, the
only name on the commits I lifted was you. Is there somewhere else I
should have looked for that information?

> `Co-developed-by`. Also, please add a note of what you changed/wrote
> e.g. square brackets, and `Link` tags to the original PRs/discussions.

If this goes to v1, I will note that I wrote the commit messages.

Apologies,
Conor.

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