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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>, ksummit@lists.linux.dev,
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:29:06PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 4:56 PM Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:

<...>

> > Thanks for the summary, I just disagree with the punch line:
> >  "the advantages of using Rust outweighs the cost".
> 
> That's fair, but you said you didn't know what the advantages are at
> the top of your message, so you cannot really tell if they outweigh or
> not the cost ;P

There are different levels of not knowing :). The more accurate sentence
will be: "I'm aware of general message from Rust believers, but I don't know
about advantages of Rust for the kernel and what REAL problems it solves, which
are not possible or extremely hard to solve with C."

Thanks

> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel