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SubjectRe: [PATCH] docs: rust: add "The Rust experiment" section
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 6:27 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
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> It very unlikely end users read this document.

We can add a note to the Kconfig symbol too -- would that be OK with you?

> And that statement is
> not limited to end users, it is true for everybody.

Agreed, but that bit is meant to emphasize that end users do not have
a reason to use it at all (unlike kernel developers etc. from the
previous paragraph)

> What we should be saying is that Rust for the Linux kernel in general
> is not ready for production use. Developing drivers in Rust is
> currently for experimentation only. Given the experimental nature of
> the work, there is some risk Rust will never be ready for production
> use.

The risk is that Rust gets dropped from the kernel because it is not
used enough, not so much that there is a fundamental problem to solve
in order to reach production.

Cheers,
Miguel

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