linux-kernel - Re: Rust kernel policy

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Message-ID: <20250220154941.GB31777@1wt.eu>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:49:41 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To: Martin Uecker <uecker@...raz.at>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ksummit@...ts.linux.dev, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 03:09:21PM +0100, Martin Uecker wrote:
> In general, if people have good ideas what compilers or the language
> standard can do to help, please talk to us. It is possible to
> improve compilers and/or the language itself.

I'm keeping that offer in mind, as I regularly face in userland many
of the issues that are manually addressed in the kernel. The problem
clearly is both the language and the compilers, we can improve things
and I know that you need some feedback on this.

Thanks,
Willy