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The end of the kernel Rust experiment
(lwn.net)
Ambiguous title is ambiguous ಠ_ಠ
Yep. Came here ready to rant
This means that drivers written in Rust will have just a good a chance to be accepted as drivers written in C?
I guess that still depends on the maintainer which is responsible. But since drivers often deal with untrusted data, which can lead to security exploits, this makes a lot of sense.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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