[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

[Alex Gaynor]

I've long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this
acknowledges that.

Geoffrey Thomas and I created the "linux-kernel-module-rust" project at PyCon
in 2018, as an experiment to see if we could make it possible to write kernel
modules in Rust. The Rust for Linux effort has far exceeded anything we could
have expected at the time.

I want to thank all the Rust for Linux contributors, past and present, who have
helped make this a reality -- and in particularly Miguel, who really
transformed this project from an interesting demo to something that could
really land in mainline.

Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
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 MAINTAINERS | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 3da2c26a796b..355fee6a382b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -22498,7 +22498,6 @@ F: tools/verification/

 RUST
 M: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
-M: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
 R: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
 R: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
 R: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
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2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this
> acknowledges that.
>
> Geoffrey Thomas and I created the "linux-kernel-module-rust" project at PyCon
> in 2018, as an experiment to see if we could make it possible to write kernel
> modules in Rust. The Rust for Linux effort has far exceeded anything we could
> have expected at the time.
>
> I want to thank all the Rust for Linux contributors, past and present, who have
> helped make this a reality -- and in particularly Miguel, who really
> transformed this project from an interesting demo to something that could
> really land in mainline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>

Thanks Alex for the kind words, it has been a pleasure!

Cheers,
Miguel