Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Experimental Patches For Rust-Written Linux Network Drivers

A new set of patches this weekend begin laying the groundwork for Rust abstractions for Linux network device drivers so that Rust code can be used for constructing new network device drivers. The patches also include a dummy Rust network driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-Network-Patches

[G.T.]

How much is Linus involved in the rust kernel ecosystem? Has he committed any rust code and how proficient is he in rust? Is he active in the day-to-day rust discussions?

[Sethox]

As long as I am aware (which is very little), Linus likes any code that makes things simple. In the early days of initial Rust code for the Linux kernel there was some (positive) discussions, but regular "why is this needed?" (mostly to know if the developer understands the consequence and can describe the benefits to the code). And as we see today, it's been added more and more Rust code.

To answer your question though G.T., I believe Linus has just been the usual gatekeeper (pass or revise your code).

[blackcat]

How much is Linus involved in the rust kernel ecosystem? Has he committed any rust code and how proficient is he in rust? Is he active in the day-to-day rust discussions?

He was very involved in the beginning but now that the most important groundwork is laid he isn't involved at all besides accepting mr as usual, No and that seems like a personal question that only Linus would know the answer to. No.

Greg KH is the more active core maintainer in the rust stuff. Otherwise its mostly up to the rust for linux maintainers to do the reviews and that's perfectly fine because they know rust better than the core maintainers.

[ClosedSource]

How much is Linus involved in the rust kernel ecosystem? Has he committed any rust code and how proficient is he in rust? Is he active in the day-to-day rust discussions?

As far as I can tell, he knows very little other outside Assembly, C, bash, and how to write Makefiles. However, he is clearly better than most people today in C. The guy could easily write a book called "The Torvalds principles of C code" and it would be used to teach college students about C. Rust exists to solve problems the Torvalds doesn't have.
He probably knows just enough C++ to criticize C++.

[lowflyer]

He probably knows just enough C++ to criticize C++.

No. He doesn't.

[ClosedSource]

No. He doesn't.

Maybe just to think he can :-)

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

now we just need systemd rewrite into rust

[aviallon]

now we just need systemd rewrite into rust

systemd-stub is already being rewritten in Rust.

[patrick1946]

He probably knows just enough C++ to criticize C++.

I have seen some of his C++ code in his diving app. I am not even sure he knows enough for that. 😚