Using Gmail for kernel development Considered Harmful

Using Gmail for kernel development Considered Harmful

[Matthew Wilcox]

Don't use gmail addresses for your kernel development.  You'll
randomly lose email because gmail thinks it knows better and gives
no way to say "you're wrong".

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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:40:17 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] rust: xarray: abstract `xa_alloc`

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 01:04:11PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > +        limit: Range<u32>,
> 
> The Range type is inclusive/exclusive but xa_limit is
> inclusive/inclusive. They should match to avoid confusion.

... and xa_limit is inclusive at the top end to be sure that we can
actually allocate 2^32-1.  Or does Range handle that by using 0 to mean
that 2^32-1 is allowed?
> 


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