Comment by soraminazuki
10 months ago
A decision to include Rust in the kernel isn't a decision to include any patches from any specific person with no questions asked.
It's valid for maintainers to reject a patch even if you disagree with the reason. Repeatedly causing social media storms to "shame" them for doing so, Marcan's own word BTW, isn't.
Rust is young and efforts to use it in kernel programming is even more so. It's completely understandable for wanting to take things slow and not be too quick to put it in places where there would be no going back. Everyone should at least be able to recognize that this concern exists, regardless of their opinions on Rust.
> A decision to include Rust in the kernel isn't a decision to include any patches from any specific person with no questions asked.
This is not what's happening.
> It's completely understandable for wanting to take things slow and not be too quick to put it in places where there would be no going back.
Have you even seen the original thread? It wasnt about "taking it slow", he was trying to block R4L permanently.
I'm sorry, but no. Christoph clearly didn't even spend 5 seconds looking at the patches before rejecting them. His first objection was obviously false, and when this was pointed out he fell back on blanket objection to rust without any real technical argument.