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class="rp" itemprop="datePublished">Sun, 9 Feb 2025 01:47:52 +0100</td></tr><tr><td class="lp">From</td><td class="rp" itemprop="author">Danilo Krummrich <></td></tr><tr><td class="lp">Subject</td><td class="rp" itemprop="name">Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)</td></tr></table></td><td></td></tr></table><pre itemprop="articleBody">Ted,<br /><br />On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 03:44:16PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:<br />> This was the trust of my "Beyond Upstream First" presentation which I<br />> gave to the Linux Foundation Member Summit last fall[1].<br />> <br />> [1] <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11rMc8PBeyMItV6hv31OHSZ626_6FCZxjX6ZxEAehCpQ/edit#slide=id.p">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11rMc8PBeyMItV6hv31OHSZ626_6FCZxjX6ZxEAehCpQ/edit#slide=id.p</a><br />> <br />> Now, I'll say that the Rust developers are making strides in the right<br />> direction here.<br /><br />Please let me add that a lot of those Rust kernel developers also have been<br />kernel developers before there has been Rust in the kernel and do still<br />contribute and even maintain C components, drivers and / or subsystems.<br /><br />I think missing trust should not be a relevent factor in this matter.<br /><br />> Miguel has stood for election for the Technical<br />> Adviory Board, and has been contributing in various ways beyond just<br />> Rust for Linux.<br /><br />Thanks for pointing this out.<br /><br />- Danilo<br /><br /></pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" 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