Re: [PATCH v6 00/23] Rust support

Wei Liu
2022-05-09T09:51:11Z

On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 01:06:18AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 07:23:58AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > ## Patch series status
> >
> > The Rust support is still to be considered experimental. However,
> > support is good enough that kernel developers can start working on the
> > Rust abstractions for subsystems and write drivers and other modules.
>
> I'd really like to see this landed for a few reasons:
>
> - It's under active development, and I'd rather review the changes
> "normally", incrementally, etc. Right now it can be hard to re-review
> some of the "mostly the same each version" patches in the series.
>
> - I'd like to break the catch-22 of "ask for a new driver to be
> written in rust but the rust support isn't landed" vs "the rust
> support isn't landed because there aren't enough drivers". It
> really feels like "release early, release often" is needed here;
> it's hard to develop against -next. :)

+1 to both points. :-)