Deprecate UAPI bindings, to be removed in 1.0
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux, rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start by locating the Linux UAPI bindings in the libc crate and reviewing how they are exposed to users. Compare the intended replacement with the linux-raw-sys documentation; done means the bindings are deprecated or removed as planned and users are clearly directed to that crate.
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Description
We talked at RustWeek and decided that we should remove bindings to the Linux UAPI from this crate. UAPI is huge and changes frequently so is difficult to maintain, and it's not a "libc". Instead, we would like to guide users toward the linux-raw-sys crate, which covers much more because bindings are autogenerated (and the crate is also more organized).
@Amanieu does this sound accurate?
Cc linux-raw-sys maintainer @sunfishcode in case you have any concerns with the above.
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