Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: add Benno Lossin as Rust reviewer

From: Alex Gaynor
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 18:22:02 EST


Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@xxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 6:18 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Benno has been involved with the Rust for Linux project for
> the better part of a year now. He has been working on solving
> the safe pinned initialization problem [1], which resulted in
> the pin-init API patch series [2] that allows to reduce the
> need for `unsafe` code in the kernel. He is also working on
> the field projection RFC for Rust [3] to bring pin-init as
> a language feature.
>
> His expertise with the language will be very useful to have
> around in the future if Rust grows within the kernel, thus
> add him to the `RUST` entry as reviewer.
>
> Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/the-safe-pinned-initialization-problem [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20230408122429.1103522-1-y86-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2]
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3318 [3]
> Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 90abe83c02f3..bf9deaa4aa5a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18225,6 +18225,7 @@ M: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> R: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> R: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> R: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +R: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@xxxxxxxxx>
> L: rust-for-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> S: Supported
> W: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux
>
> base-commit: 09a9639e56c01c7a00d6c0ca63f4c7c41abe075d
> --
> 2.40.0
>


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