rust: conclude the Rust experiment

The Rust support was merged in v6.1 into mainline in order to help
determine whether Rust as a language was suitable for the kernel,
i.e. worth the tradeoffs, technically, procedurally and socially.

At the 2025 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, the experiment has just
been deemed concluded [1].

Thus remove the section -- it was not fully true already anyway, since
there are already uses of Rust in production out there, some well-known
Linux distributions enable it and it is already in millions of devices
via Android.

Obviously, this does not mean that everything works for every kernel
configuration, architecture, toolchain etc., or that there won't be
new issues. There is still a ton of work to do in all areas, from the
kernel to upstream Rust, GCC and other projects. And, in fact, certain
combinations (such as the mixed GCC+LLVM builds and the upcoming GCC
support) are still quite experimental but getting there.

But the experiment is done, i.e. Rust is here to stay.

I hope this signals commitment from the kernel to companies and other
entities to invest more into it, e.g. into giving time to their kernel
developers to train themselves in Rust.

Thanks to the many kernel maintainers that gave the project their
support and patience throughout these years, and to the many other
developers, whether in the kernel or in other projects, that have
made this possible. I had a long list of 173 names in the credits of
the original pull that merged the support into the kernel [2], and now
such a list would be way longer, so I will not even try to compose one,
but again, thanks a lot, everybody.

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/
Link: https://git.kernel.org/linus/8aebac82933f
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251213000042.23072-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
index bc56dee6d0bcb1c5ad558d88a97ae0a9ede718ad..f39d1d3dd9ceff821d7641ebc7a94f54c20819a1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Please refer to ``include/linux/compiler_attributes.h`` for more information.
 Rust
 ----
 
-The kernel has experimental support for the Rust programming language
+The kernel has support for the Rust programming language
 [rust-language]_ under ``CONFIG_RUST``. It is compiled with ``rustc`` [rustc]_
 under ``--edition=2021`` [rust-editions]_. Editions are a way to introduce
 small changes to the language that are not backwards compatible.

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/index.rst b/Documentation/rust/index.rst
index ec62001c7d8c78581db01947bd975919b7206547..e61524959dbcb558ded867b624001fb42a93a618 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rust/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/index.rst
@@ -7,24 +7,6 @@ Documentation related to Rust within the kernel. To start using Rust
 in the kernel, please read the quick-start.rst guide.
 
 
-The Rust experiment
--------------------
-
-The Rust support was merged in v6.1 into mainline in order to help in
-determining whether Rust as a language was suitable for the kernel, i.e. worth
-the tradeoffs.
-
-Currently, the Rust support is primarily intended for kernel developers and
-maintainers interested in the Rust support, so that they can start working on
-abstractions and drivers, as well as helping the development of infrastructure
-and tools.
-
-If you are an end user, please note that there are currently no in-tree
-drivers/modules suitable or intended for production use, and that the Rust
-support is still in development/experimental, especially for certain kernel
-configurations.
-
-
 Code documentation
 ------------------