On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 11:02:23AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 3/13/24 04:05, Andreas Hindborg wrote: > > This is the second version of the Rust block device driver API and the Rust null > > block driver. The context and motivation can be seen in cover letter of the RFC > > v1 [1]. If more context is required, a talk about this effort was recorded at > > LPC [2]. I hope to be able to discuss this series at LSF this year [3]. > > Memory safety may land in C++ in the near future (see also > https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/). If memory-safe C++ or memory-safe C > would be adopted in the kernel, it would allow writing memory-safe > drivers without having to add complicated bindings between existing C > code and new Rust code. Please do not take this as personal criticism - > I appreciate the effort that has been spent on coming up with great > Rust bindings for the Linux kernel block layer. You know, this reminds me of when I was at Intel working on NVMe. We had a product all ready to ship and a manager suggested that we delay shipping it until the SCSI-over-PCI standard was finished and ratified so that the same piece of silicon could support both. Fortunately, said manager was overruled, but it's a great example of how this kind of FUD can actually work.
