You're completely wrong here. There is no push to "legitimize" Rust by getting it into the kernel. A lot of people want to actively write drivers for Linux with

You're completely wrong here. There is no push to "legitimize" Rust by getting it into the kernel. A lot of people want to actively write drivers for Linux without having to use C to do it. Trying to tweak the kernel to make integration easier in a supposed non-harmful way doesn't harm anything.