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C subsystem patches have started to be rejected by Linus because they break Rust builds despite the agreement that this wouldn't happen. That's why Hellwig switched from ignoring Rust patches sent to him for review to NACKing this one.

Hellwig did it, from what anyone can tell, to get Linus to publish the actual policy which he still hasn't done yet.

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> C subsystem patches have started to be rejected by Linus because they break Rust builds despite the agreement that this wouldn't happen.

No. There was one instance of a toolchain issue accidentally including some Rust stuff when Rust was configured off, this was fairly quickly rectified. Linus even said in one of his more recent emails that this happens infrequently, but also, this happens all the time in general, and that’s why linux-next exists.

Linus did reaffirm the policy of “C folks are allowed to fully ignore Rust stuff.”

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