linux-kernel - Re: Rust kernel policy

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Message-ID: <CANiq72n5v7wS_YKCegdZ2tU1EapASr10SrR3+Ef3ZypUR8XBQA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:10:47 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: 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>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch> wrote:
>
> Disregarding the specific discussion here, but this just felt like a good
> place to thank you for your work to bring rust to linux. Your calm and
> understanding approach to figure out what fits best in each case, from "go
> away, don't bother me with rust" through "I like this, but I have no clue"
> all the way to "uh so we have four drivers now in progress, this is
> getting messy" has and continues to enormously help in making this all a
> success.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Obviously not diminishing everyone else's work here, just that Miguel's
> effort on the culture and people impact of r4l stands out to me.

Thanks for the kind words Sima, I appreciate them.

Others are definitely the ones doing the bulk of the hard technical
work (i.e. the safe Rust abstractions).

Cheers,
Miguel