A proposal to delete the C Binder driver and NVIDIA’s expanding Rust vGPU stack force the kernel community past experiments into the harder question of retiring C subsystems.
By kexecBinder deletion, a Rust-only SPDM requester, and unconditional per VMA locks together shift the argument from whether Rust belongs in the kernel to what happens when a Rust implementation becomes the one that wins.
By kexecA push to delete the legacy C Binder driver, a Rust SPDM requester for untrusted device auth, and unconditional VMA locks together force the kernel to decide whether dual maintenance ends in security-sensitive paths.
By kexecGoogle maintainers say the 15-year-old IPC code is too fragile to keep, and the Rust port is already shipping on Android.
By kexecA 6.12 stable backport meant to wake nested USB3 devices is blamed for hard MCE resets when Android tooling hammers the root hub.
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