Comment by chris_wot
3 days ago
"Rust also gives us the ability to define our in-kernel apis in ways that make them almost impossible to get wrong when using them. We have way too many difficult/tricky apis that require way too much maintainer review just to "ensure that you got this right" that is a combination of both how our apis have evolved over the years"
Funny, that's not Theodore T'so's position. The Rust guys tried to ask about interface semantics and he yelled at them:
There's an email from Ted in this thread. It's really cool to see how his perspective changed since the video blew up.
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250219170623.GB1789...
I watched like 2 minutes of this and I don't understand what this is supposed to be saying about the current debate. There's a guy lecturing the audience about how there are 30 filesystems in the kernel and not all of them are going to be instantaneously converted to Rust. But gregkh and kees aren't suggesting that any of them be converted to Rust!
It's only relevant to the current debate in the sense that that event was the trigger for Wedson (the first and OG R4L project contributor) to quit, which was only a few months ago, so it's a fresh wound marinating in the background while essentially the same drama unfolds all over again.