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Linus on Rust and the kernel's DMA layer
Friday February 21, 2025. 02:43 PM , from LWN.net
At the end of January we ran this article
on the discussions around a set of Rust bindings for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer. Many pixels have been expended on the topic since across the net, most recently in this sprawling email thread. Linus Torvalds has now made his feelings known on the topic: You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But 'ignore the Rust side' automatically also means that you don't have any *say* on the Rust side. You can't have it both ways. You can't say 'I want to have nothing to do with Rust', and then in the very next sentence say 'And that means that the Rust code that I will ignore cannot use the C interfaces I maintain'. The code in question seems highly likely to be merged for the 6.15 release.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1011197/
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