linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.

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Message-ID: <20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 06:29:16 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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	robin.murphy@....com, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
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	"open list:DMA MAPPING HELPERS" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 10:17:22AM +0200, Abdiel Janulgue wrote:
> I do acknowledge your reservations about the possible maintenance burden 
> due to the introduction of a rust (or another language) consumer of the 
> dma-api. But I was hoping that we could arrive at some sort of common 
> ground?

The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping
to spread a multi-language code base.  I absolutely support using
Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

Thank you for your understanding!