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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by cannabis_sam on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:05PM (#28831096)
I personally hope that linux kernel development won’t be constricted by the needs of hardware devs…
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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by shadowgovt on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:15PM (#28831195)
Isn't a big chunk of a kernel's job providing a standard abstraction for hardware access?

I'd assume naively that such a construct would, of necessity, involve the needs of hardware devs.

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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by cannabis_sam on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:25PM (#28831286)
Absolutely!

I was emphatically not suggesting that the needs of hardware devs should be ignored, just that those needs should not constrict kernel development to the detriment of other concerns.

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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by cannabis_sam on Monday October 11, 2021 @06:39PM (#28833891)
(empathetically*)
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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by phendrenad2 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:09PM (#28845114)
The problem is, it isn't "needs of hardware devs" vs "rust". The kernel exists to abstract over hardware. Almost everything in the kernel* is written by "hardware devs". So any benefit Rust brings will be FOR the benefit of hardware devs.

* - There is some cryptography stuff in the kernel (that probably doesn't need to be in there anyway) and that isn't written by hardware devs I suppose.

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