Re: A Demo of rust-in-base

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Warner Losh writes:

> > > Because those two components need to be updated in lock-step with
> > > potentially any git commit to the base system.  Not just official
> > > releases, even minor ones.
> >
> > I'm not trying to be glib here: I really want to make sure I understand
> > any fine nuances you are trying to communicate.
> >
> > Isn't that precisely what drm-kmod already deals with ?
>
> [...]
>
> The other is KBI and matching the kernel. The massive inlining in linuxkpi
> make a stable KBI basically impossible [...]

That was essentially my point:  We already have things in ports which
are totally fragile relative to the kernel, so I want to make sure there
is not som new/other/worse/different aspects in the two cases Alan
brought up.


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