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Comment by sanxiyn

2 days ago

Why wouldn't it be merged? No Rust code is built unless CONFIG_RUST is on, and it is off by default. It won't be on by default for a long time.

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robinei  2 days ago

That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping with it disabled is unrealistic, even without a policy change. (I don't think this is bad)

  • danieldk  2 days ago

    Rust for Linux is currently experiment. If a larger number of widely-used drivers get written in Rust and developers prefer writing them in Rust over C, then I guess it's time to declare the experiment a success and flip the switch?