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Question about bindgen binding inspection
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Description
Hi! Currently, I'm bumping up against an issue where we need to support multiple versions of Linux headers for our library. Our options are:
- Tie this to the version of the kernel module.
- Drawbacks: we need a kernel module loaded to build our library. This could be a deal breaker.
- Check the Linux header package version.
- Drawbacks: there doesn't seem to be a pkg-config file for this.
- Check the bindings
- Drawbacks: there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this in bindgen.
I'd prefer option 3, but only if we could avoid having to do a text search in the bindings. Is there any way to support this programmatically in bindgen at the moment?
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Research direction
The issue names bindgen and Linux headers but no repository file, test, or entry point. Start by checking bindgen's current capabilities for programmatic inspection of generated bindings; done means determining whether such an API can avoid text search, or documenting that the capability is unavailable.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100