Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project:
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250131075751.GA16720@lst.de/
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/20250128092334.GA28548@lst.de/
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/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b05f-59f75c92e6ae@marcan.st/T/#m1944b6d485070970e359bbc7baa71b04c86a30af
Childish behavior all around, by the looks of it.
You can tell which engineers don’t work face to face in an office with a team of other engineers, because they end up sounding like this in text.
I never get involved in drama
I’ve looked trough your comment history and I’ve found at least 7 instances in which you were not involved in any drama. That’s surprisingly not enough examples so the lack of evidence is kind of suspicious and serves as an evidence against your original statement.
After reading the lkml, it really does seem like the C dev just being hostile to Rust. The C dev just outright refuses to accept any of the compromises from the Rust dev, and is pretty rude about it.
Idk why, but some of these people need to hear that languages are not a team sport and fighting and being hostile to people about it just makes the Linux kernel worse.
The maintainers are acting like cry babies as if adding a flag destroyed their sand castle.
