Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/[email protected]/
The good news is this doesn’t affect drm/asahi, our GPU driver. The bad news is it does affect all the other drivers we’re (re)writing in Rust, two so far with a third one coming.
Another choice quote, calling R4L “cancer”: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Personally, I would consider this grounds for removal of Christoph from the Linux project on Code of Conduct violation grounds, but sadly I doubt much will happen other than draining a lot of people’s energy and will to continue the project until Linus says “fuck you” or something.
As for how to move forward, if I were one of the Rust maintainers, I would just merge the patch (which does not touch code formally maintained by the dissenter). Either Linus takes the pull, and whatever Christoph says is irrelevant, or he doesn’t, and R4L dies. Everything else is a waste of everyone’s time and energy.
Edit: Sent in my 2 cents: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/T/#m1944b6d485070970e359bbc7baa71b04c86a30af
I understand you’re emotional and frustrated (as are other parties), but your framing here is disingenuous. No one is ‘openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project’. You are encountering one of the known challenges of the project, and arguments against a cross-language codebase have merit. Existing maintainers have every right to push back where they see fit, as you have every right to advocate.
I’d be more sympathetic, but attempting to weaponize the CoC here really reflects poorly on you. You should focus on solving the problem, you might not succeed, but trying to drum up an army rather than doing the work casts you unfavorably IMO.
I broadly agree.
However, “Existing maintainers have every right to push back where they see fit” is tenuous when the Linux project as a whole has already (exhaustively) discussed and debated this exact question alongside all the other questions about adding Rust, and the explicit declared direction is that Rust should become an increasingly large part of the Linux kernel.
Who explicitly declared this? Where?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-adoption-and-why-the-linux-kernel-is-the-only-thing-that-matters/
I have seen that interview. Neither the excerpt you quoted nor the rest of the interview is what [email protected] claimed.
Let me guess, you get your Linux kernel development news from youtube?
Well said.
The OP is not marcan, at least as far as I know.
Agreed.
To be fair, though, OP’s username does say that he is a twelve-year-old. :)