linux-kernel - Re: Rust kernel policy

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Message-ID: <2nn05osp-9538-11n6-5650-p87s31pnnqn0@vanv.qr>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:28:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <ej@...i.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc: 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
Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy


On Wednesday 2025-02-19 06:39, Greg KH wrote:
>
>The majority of bugs (quantity, not quality/severity) we have are due to
>the stupid little corner cases in C that are totally gone in Rust.

If and when Rust receives its own corner cases in the future,
I will happily point back to this statement.