> I feel like he’s under the impression that Rust-advocating contributors are putting Rust’s interests (e.g. “legitimizing it” by getting it in the kernel) above the kernel itself.
I mean the post Linus initially responded to did contain[1] a patch removing a kernel define, asking if anyone had any objections over removing that define, just to make the resulting Rust code a little nicer looking.
[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/640