A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel [LWN.net]

A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel

Posted Oct 13, 2022 23:55 UTC (Thu) by Gaelan (guest, #145108)
In reply to: A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel by tialaramex
Parent article: A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel

> So in principle Rust for Linux could advise builders to use the stable Rust compiler, but just tell it to pretend it isn't a stable Rust compiler (one environment variable change), so as to take advantage of any QA benefits as presumably your distribution's stable Rust 1.62 compiler was actually tested while some random nightly (which has unstable features since it wasn't supported anyway) is not tested.

This is exactly what's being done.