"Greg KH" <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 09:02:53AM -0400, Wenzhao Liao wrote: >> Sorry for the earlier noise and for our unfamiliarity with parts of the >> kernel submission process, which created extra burden for maintainers. >> >> This patch adds boolean module parameter support to the Rust `module!` >> parameter path. >> >> It implements `ModuleParam` for `bool` and wires `PARAM_OPS_BOOL` into >> the Rust module parameter machinery, so Rust-side parsing reuses the >> existing kernel `kstrtobool()` semantics through `kstrtobool_bytes()` >> instead of introducing a separate parser. A boolean parameter is also >> added to `samples/rust/rust_minimal.rs` as a small reference user and >> build-time validation point. > > What driver needs this feature? Module options should be very rare > going forward as they are 1990's technology and do not fit the "modern" > kernel model at all.
Rust null block uses module parameters, and was requested to use proper boolean parsing rather than overloading u8 parsing for boolean parameters [1]. Best regards, Andreas Hindborg [1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/
