Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
by sanxiyn on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:45AM
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Why wouldn't it be merged? No Rust code is built unless CONFIG_RUST is on, and it is off by default. It won't be on by default for a long time.
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
by robinei on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:27AM
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That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping with it disabled is unrealistic, even without a policy change. (I don't think this is bad)
Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"
by danieldk on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:02AM
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Rust for Linux is currently experiment. If a larger number of widely-used drivers get written in Rust and developers prefer writing them in Rust over C, then I guess it's time to declare the experiment a success and flip the switch?