Re: Rust kernel policy

Leon Romanovsky
2025-02-20T09:55:26Z

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 12:52:14PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2/19/25 12:46 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I do feel that new drivers written in Rust would help with the
> > vulnerabilities that new drivers usually add to the kernel.
>
> For driver developers it is easier to learn C than to learn Rust. I'm
> not sure that all driver developers, especially the "drive by"
> developers, have the skills to learn Rust.

From what I saw, copy-paste is a classical development model for new
drivers. Copy-paste from C drivers is much more easy than from Rust
ones, simply because there are much more C drivers.

Thanks

>
> Bart.
>