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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 10:17:22AM +0200, Abdiel Janulgue wrote:
> I do acknowledge your reservations about the possible maintenance burden 
> due to the introduction of a rust (or another language) consumer of the 
> dma-api. But I was hoping that we could arrive at some sort of common 
> ground?

The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping
to spread a multi-language code base.  I absolutely support using
Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

Thank you for your understanding!