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From: comex In-Reply-To: <20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:42:22 -0800 Cc: "Dr. Greg" , Linus Torvalds , Hector Martin , Dave Airlie , Jason Gunthorpe , Greg KH , phasta@kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Danilo Krummrich , Miguel Ojeda , Abdiel Janulgue , daniel.almeida@collabora.com, aliceryhl@google.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda , Alex Gaynor , Boqun Feng , Gary Guo , Bj??rn Roy Baron , Benno Lossin , Andreas Hindborg , Trevor Gross , Valentin Obst , open list , Marek Szyprowski , airlied@redhat.com, "open list:DMA MAPPING HELPERS" , DRI Development Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <2025013030-gummy-cosmic-7927@gregkh> <20250130172437.GN5556@nvidia.com> <2025013148-reversal-pessimism-1515@gregkh> <20250131135421.GO5556@nvidia.com> <2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b05f-59f75c92e6ae@marcan.st> <208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98c3-a48ab35bb9db@marcan.st> <20250207121638.GA7356@wind.enjellic.com> <20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.edu> To: Theodore Ts'o X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3826.400.131.1.6) On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:44=E2=80=AFPM, Theodore Ts'o = wrote: >=20 > including an upstream language > community which refuses to make any kind of backwards compatibility > guarantees, and which is *actively* hostile to a second Rust compiler > implementation (I suspect because it might limit their ability to make > arbitrary backwards-incompatble language changes). Rust does, of course, make all sorts of backward compatibility = guarantees for stabilized features. The list of unstable features used by Rust for Linux is still long, but = getting shorter. https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2=