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Greg K-H
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In short, it's not going to happen, and no one is asking for it to happen. Just evolve like normally and all will be fine. The Linux kernel you run today has almost no code that was in the kernel you used 25 years ago, so why would it have the same code you use 25 years from now?
Except for the tty layer, that beast is almost identical to what was around in the beginning, and probably will outlive us all...
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Greg K-H
gregkhhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20240913112643.542914-1-benno.lossin@proton.me/
It's not a "silver bullet" for why we should be using rust in the Linux kernel, but it is a "big giant sledgehammer" to help squash and prevent from happening MANY common types of kernel vulnerabilities and bugs (remember, "all input is evil!" and this change forces you to always be aware of that, which is something that C in the kernel does not.)
I had always felt that Rust was the future for what we need to do in Linux, but now I'm sure, because if we can do stuff like this, with no overhead involved (it's all checked at build time), then we would be foolish not to give it a real try.
And yes, I've asked for this for years from the C developers, and maybe we can also do it there, but it's not obvious how and no one has come up with a way to do so. Maybe now they will have some more incentive :)
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Jani Nikula
jani@fosstodon.orgMust not make a comparison. Really. Must not. But just saying...
Clang Built Linux took literally years of effort. And it's all still C, just a different compiler.
Did anyone really expect Rust for Linux to be a breeze?
I know, I know, apples and oranges.
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🐧sima🐧
sima@chaos.socialkangrejos in copenhagen was great, but the absolute 🤯 moment was when I learned that GFP_ stands for get_free_pages
I had no idea. and @gregkh next to me had the same https://xkcd.com/1053/ experience
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Greg K-H
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Paul Moore
securepaul@fosstodon.orgAnyone else often find themselves starting a retort/reply to a thread here, only to abandon the effort part way through, because you realize your time is better spent supporting/fixing/making things than trying to educate people who haven't bothered to do any of the most basic level of self-education on the given topic?
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Greg K-H
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Greg K-H
gregkhhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/TYUPR06MB6217E6BD48B0B491AA169E67D29D2@TYUPR06MB6217.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com/
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Greg K-H
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Greg K-H
gregkhhttps://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/usbutils/commit/86dcab8964901d15b87b156546559c8ae28bd9fe
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jelly
jelly@dodgy.downloadNew blogpost about creating bit-by-bit reproducible images with mkosi(!)
https://vdwaa.nl/mkosi-reproducible-arch-images.html
#archlinux #systemd #mkosi
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K. Ryabitsev 🍁
monsieuriconMe: "Oh, yeah, for sure."
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