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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:52:14 -0800
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:

> On 2/19/25 12:46 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I do feel that new drivers written in Rust would help with the
> > vulnerabilities that new drivers usually add to the kernel.  
> 
> For driver developers it is easier to learn C than to learn Rust. I'm
> not sure that all driver developers, especially the "drive by"
> developers, have the skills to learn Rust.

That's a short term problem.

But it's not like we are going to ban C from all new drivers. But as Rust
becomes more popular, we should at the very least make it easy to support
Rust drivers.

-- Steve