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On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:21 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> Part of the issue here is -stable and back porting fixes. If files
> move around within the tree, it makes this back porting harder. git
> cherry-pick is a lot less likely to work, it needs more manual
> intervention. I expect it will make the stable teams job much easier
> if these files are in the right place from day 1 and never move.

We can definitely move things already if we agree on a particular
approach -- we definitely do not want to make anybody's job harder.

An alternative could be stating that Rust support will not get
backports for e.g. the first two or three releases to give it a bit of
time to mature in-tree; while making it easier to get maintainers
involved and in general everything rolling.

Cheers,
Miguel