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Date:   Mon, 9 May 2022 09:39:38 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/23] Rust support
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On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 01:06:18AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 07:23:58AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > ## Patch series status
> > 
> > The Rust support is still to be considered experimental. However,
> > support is good enough that kernel developers can start working on the
> > Rust abstractions for subsystems and write drivers and other modules.
> 
> I'd really like to see this landed for a few reasons:
> 
> - It's under active development, and I'd rather review the changes
>   "normally", incrementally, etc. Right now it can be hard to re-review
>   some of the "mostly the same each version" patches in the series.
> 
> - I'd like to break the catch-22 of "ask for a new driver to be
>   written in rust but the rust support isn't landed" vs "the rust
>   support isn't landed because there aren't enough drivers". It
>   really feels like "release early, release often" is needed here;
>   it's hard to develop against -next. :)

+1 to both points. :-)