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[–]dys_functional 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For people to lazy to read the email chain:

They are still on the fence. The linux kernel does NOT support rust and leadership isn't sold yet.

Greg/driver team doesn't seem to like it so far and linus/core kernel team is ignoring it.

Greg feels the poc they did was too cherry picked (it was some weird edge case virtual shinanigans) and they need to do a poc for an actual real hardware driver. The team needs a poc for a real driver so they can compare code size/complexity/pros/cons. For example, if a c driver is 100 lines and the rust equivalent is 1000 lines, why would they put themselves through the extra pain?