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> Much has been spoken at various occasions about drivers and I feel that the consensus is to wait for now.

Interesting, I did not follow that development. I thought the plan was to use Rust for some out-of-tree/optional drivers. What changed?

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There was opposition to building interfaces for toy drivers and the last thread had suggestions at a rust filesystem interface rebuffed by saying they should try rewrite the ext2 driver in rust to prove that it was usable for real filesystems rather than toy ones. I'd guess similar thought processes fuelled this decision.

It's already used for an intree driver, but a lot of the infrastructure for making Rust drivers was not be upstreamed.

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