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

From: Alex Gaynor
Date: Thu Apr 20 2023 - 18:33:50 EST


My previous line was incorrect. Corrected:

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

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 4:21 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
>
> --
> All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.



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