Re: [PATCH 00/17] Rust support

Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-07T14:13:25Z

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> Miguel's point is that it does implement the vast majority of binder features
> and is non-trivial, so it could be used as evidence that useful kernel drivers
> can be built with Rust; not just "transpiled" from C, but written with the Rust
> safety guarantees.

binder is not a kernel driver. It is a ill design IPC mechanism
absolutely no representative for other kernel code.

Please write an actual real driver dealing with real (and common) hardware
and come back with the results.