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est31 opened this issue May 16, 2025 · 4 comments
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conditional passing of edition for core #1163

est31 opened this issue May 16, 2025 · 4 comments
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est31 commented May 16, 2025 •
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Since PR rust-lang/rust#138162, the Rust std library and core libraries use edition 2024. The Linux makefile hardcodes edition 2021 however.

Right now, core compiles fine on editions 2021 and 2024, but my PR rust-lang/rust#140966 encountered a build failure of the rust-for-linux CI.

Talked to @nbdd0121 about this. According to them, it should be possible to add conditional compilation dependent on the rust compiler used to compile the kernel. This matches the expectations of the core library the most I'd say: on releases before 1.87.0, the compiler used edition 2021, and on 1.87.0 and later, it uses 2024.

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rust: compile libcore with edition 2024 for 1.87+
21e9042 
Rust 1.87 (released on 2025-05-15) compiles core library with edition
2024 instead of 2021 [1]. Ensure that the edition matches libcore's
expectation to avoid potential breakage.

Cc: [email protected] # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Link: rust-lang/rust#138162 [1]
Closes: Rust-for-Linux#1163
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]>
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ojeda commented May 18, 2025

According to them, it should be possible to add conditional compilation dependent on the rust compiler used to compile the kernel.

Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem -- it is the way we handle this sort of thing (Gary asked me while at RustWeek).

Thanks for filling the issue!

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lore: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/T/#u

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@est31 did you leave a comment somewhere about something special needed for rustdoc? I thought it was on 21e9042, but I can't find it anywhere now.

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est31 commented May 18, 2025

@est31 did you leave a comment somewhere about something special needed for rustdoc?

Yeah you remember correctly. I've deleted that comment after @nbdd0121 pointed out to me that there is a skip_flags. The patch looks fine to me, but still need try rustc with the patch.

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