linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=t=oLcpR6ML63Nofs-f5NFn9b38SDgKoKDwkGS-USK0w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:36:12 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, 
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I've long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this
> acknowledges that.
>
> Geoffrey Thomas and I created the "linux-kernel-module-rust" project at PyCon
> in 2018, as an experiment to see if we could make it possible to write kernel
> modules in Rust. The Rust for Linux effort has far exceeded anything we could
> have expected at the time.
>
> I want to thank all the Rust for Linux contributors, past and present, who have
> helped make this a reality -- and in particularly Miguel, who really
> transformed this project from an interesting demo to something that could
> really land in mainline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>

Thanks Alex for the kind words, it has been a pleasure!

Cheers,
Miguel