• Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (SE Radio)

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Fri Jun 5 06:40:09 2026
    The Software Engineering Radio podcast has put up an
    interview with graphics maintainer Dave Airlie. Much of what is in
    there will not be news to LWN readers, but it is an interesting overview of
    the life of a large-subsystem maintainer.

    I was talking to a few of the Rust people, and I thought: these are
    very young people, these are a group of people in their 20s, maybe
    30s, they are a younger cohort of developers than the people I am
    normally used to dealing with. I thought there was maybe a good
    way we could bring these groups together. I think that having
    young people coming into the kernel using Rust is valuable... So I
    thought that I should be supportive of bringing Rust into the
    kernel.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1076478/
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