Comment by steveklabnik

> "this is broken and needs to be fixed, preferably quickly, to unblock me

How would Rust breakage block someone who only writes C?

> I would not expect most of the R4L maintainers to want to volunteer to do that kind of turnaround time on a consistent basis.

There's at least six people who are being paid full time to work on Rust for Linux, across a few different companies. I would imagine fixing any breakage is a high priority for them, and since it's part of their job, I'd imagine they'll get it done.