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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] An Anti-Initsystem
Le 29/03/2026 à 21:44, Rainer Weikusat via Dng a écrit :
> I was originally planning to do this in Rust because this seemed like
> a nice opportunity to use it for something. However, before I got around
> to start this, I learnt that the Linux DRM maintainers plan to mandate
> use of Rust in future.


    This sounds like an agreement between maintainers. It is in no way
a concern for the users of the API, which is based on IOCTLs and a C
library wrapper around these IOCTLs.

    They do it in Rust because Torwalds give them only one alternative:
C or Rust. If, some day, Linus permits COBOL (I'm joking), they might
change their mind, which wouldn't change the IOCTL and C APIs.

--     Didier