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Mon, 18 May 2026 04:08:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: AShNAKQnQ-07 Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 10:08:10 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Miguel Ojeda" , "Demi Marie Obenour" Cc: "Julian Braha" , "Nathan Chancellor" , "Nicolas Schier" , "Jani Nikula" , "Andrew Morton" , "Gary Guo" , ljs@kernel.org, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Masahiro Yamada" , "Miguel Ojeda" , "Jonathan Corbet" , qingfang.deng@linux.dev, yann.prono@telecomnancy.net, ej@inai.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20260516215354.449807-1-julianbraha@gmail.com> <20260516215354.449807-2-julianbraha@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] scripts: add kconfirm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 18, 2026, at 00:53, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 10:25=E2=80=AFPM Demi Marie Obenour > wrote: >> >> I was hoping for Linux to avoid the Rust trend of downloading tons >> of third-party crates, with all the supply-chain risks that entails. > > I completely agree -- it is why I said a well-known, vetted set of cra= tes. > > That is, we should decide on e.g. a single CLI arg parser, a single > logger, etc. for most of our tools, and ideally they should be > well-known crates (ideally already trusted via use in the compiler > itself). > > Moreover, they should be pinned with `--locked` or similar (like we > already recommend for `bindgen-cli`), so that we only ever use > something that matches the hash in the lockfile that would be > committed in the tree. What about dependencies that are normally shipped by the distros along with the rust compiler? Would it be possible to allow a range of version that matches the ones that are present on common distros like we do with C libraries, or would that cause more problems than it solves? Arnd