On Wed Apr 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM BST, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1], > we are going to follow Debian Stable's `bindgen` versions as our minimum > supported version. > > Debian Trixie was released with `bindgen` 0.71.1, which it still uses > to this day [2]. > > Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [3], which means that a > fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers > to upgrade. > > Thus bump the minimum to the new version. > > Then, in later commits, clean up most of the workarounds and other bits > that this upgrade of the minimum allows us. > > Ubuntu 25.10 also has a recent enough `bindgen` [4] (even the already > unsupported Ubuntu 25.04 had it), and they also provide versioned packages > with `bindgen` 0.71.1 back to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS [5]. > > Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1] > Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bindgen [2] > Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [3] > Link: > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=bindgen > [4] > Link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-bindgen-0.71 [5] > Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- > scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
