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Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by steveklabnik on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @05:45PM (#26813507)
They might. There are five things that they're using that they can't work around:

One is going to be stable in Rust 1.52.0, the next release of Rust. This will happen before the next kernel release, so it barely counts. It's also a documentation tooling feature.

One is related to symbol mangling, and so in theory could be worked around I'd imagine, but is landing soon enough they don't think it's worth it.

The final three are related to each other; two of them look like they're being stable pretty soon, and the third, while it's less clear on timeline, is one pretty small thing.

So, the answer is basically that the exposure here is pretty small. How much that matters is a social question as much as a technical one. While "unstable" is a binary designation, within it is a spectrum of unstability. "This feature has no path to stabilization" to "this will be stable in the next Rust" and all things in between. Maybe allowing some unstable things that are closer to the latter is acceptable, maybe not.

Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by Gadiguibou on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:10PM (#26813737)
I'm curious about what those specific features are. Could you tell me their names? I'd like to go read up on them a bit more.
Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by hmfrh on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:18PM (#26813794)
Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by Gadiguibou on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:18PM (#26815866)
Thank you!
Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by imjasonmiller on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:18PM (#26813798)