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This is exactly the position Christoph Hellwig took in the original email chain that kicked off the current round of drama: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250131075751.GA1672.... I think it's fair to say that this position is getting plenty of attention.

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The opposing view is that drivers written in Rust using effectively foolproof APIs require far less maintainer effort to review. Yes, it might be annoying for Christoph to have to document & explain the precise semantics of his APIs and let a Rust contributor know when something changes, but there is a potential savings of maintainer time down the line across dozens of different drivers.

> Yes, it might be annoying for Christoph to have to document & explain the precise semantics of his APIs and let a Rust contributor know when something changes,

Don't he need to do that anyway for every user of his code?

I guess the point is that it he is able to review the code of every driver made in C using his API, but he can't review the Rust interface himself.

He doesn’t want to. He’s smart enough to be able to.

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