Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4) (@kernellogger@fosstodon.org)
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Attached: 1 image Congrats to the #Rustlang and #Rust-for-#Linux community: the #LinuxKernel now contains the first useful thing built using Rust[1]! 🥳 👏 It's a network driver for Asix PHYs. It's provided as an alternative to an existing driver written in C. The features are equivalent. For more details see https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d6beb085e8ff3d9547df8a5a55f15ccc7552c5d0, https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/cbe0e415089636170aa6eb540ca4af5dc9842a60, and https://lwn.net/Articles/949270/ [1] reminder, until now the #kernel's Rust support was not used for anything practical upstream: https://lwn.net/Articles/952029/
    • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      The poster finds it "kinda odd" that people don't immediately correctly interpret statements like this toot as being exclusively about the upstream kernel: https://fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/111742009818641713

      I find it "kinda odd" that he expects that to be a natural reading of the original toot.

  • tbk@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Building a network driver is an excellent use case for the language.