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by gregkh 1010 days ago
No, the only rust code accepted into any released kernels is basic framework infrastructure so that someday, maybe, in the future, real functionality could be written in rust.

There are many out-of-tree examples of rust kernel code, but as of right now, none have been merged.

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This reply is from another (major) Linux kernel developer.

For those not in the know, gregkh = Greg Kroah-Hartman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman

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