Comment by rincebrain
1 day ago
People keep misunderstanding it because the people who are shouting about how Rust is a terrible thing to have in the kernel keep claiming the situation is not that way.
I don't do mainline Linux dev regularly, I can't say whether the claim that Christoph made that the process doesn't actually work that way in practice is true or not without doing a lot of archaeology, but that's why there's confusion around it - because some people keep insisting that it doesn't work that way in reality. (At a 500 mile view, it seems like Linus going around making very explicit statements shutting down claims of that uncertainty a bunch would do wonders for clarity, but that assumes good faith on a lot of people's parts, and I also think Linus has learned not to be too visible in his proclamations about anything if he can avoid it...)
> […] it seems like Linus going around making very explicit statements shutting down claims of that uncertainty a bunch would do wonders for clarity […]
Did you read the message? This is Linus making a very explicit statement shutting down the claim that there is uncertainty.
I did, yes.
My remark is that the complaint that kept coming up from both proponents and detractors of the R4L effort is that Linus said one thing in writing and the actual outcomes appear to be substantially different, and at the point where several people who have contributed for years to Linux have left over the friction involved, I don't think "he should have intervened sooner" is a novel take.
I agree that he should have stepped in immediately, but that is not at all the content of your prior messages.