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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, this is fallout from a patchset adding exactly the rust library you suggest to use the DMA library. And despite this only having changes in the rust/kernel tree, the maintainer of kernel/dma showed up to NAK the patch just because he doesn't like the idea of rust code in the kernel.

Original Patch Set Thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/