On Fri Jan 5, 2024 at 2:04 AM EET, David Howells wrote: > Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > So instead, it would seem easier to me to do the cleaner version on the > > Rust side, and then once we know what that looks like, maybe we update > > the C version to match - or maybe we light it all on fire and continue > > with rewriting everything in Rust... *shrug* > > Please, no. Please keep Rust separate and out of the core of the kernel and > subsystems. > > David Yeah, if we ignore that code is field-tested in some cases literally decades, is infrastructure critical in global scale and similar QA metrics, any major Rust update to the core code would be pretty hard to manage for stable kernels... Using Rust in core would probably require decisions at least that are not in the scope of a single patch set. BR, Jarkko
