C'est une étape important pour le langage Rust dans le noyau Linux. Malgré les oppositions, les débats, et les problèmes d'intégration, Rust n'est plus une simple expérimentation dans le noyau Linux. Plus de 65 000 lignes de code qui font la différence. Le langage est maintenant intégré officiellement au noyau. La fin de la phase d'expérimentation a été annoncée dans la mailing list Linux Kernel, par Miguel Ojeda :

"The Rust support was merged in v6.1 into mainline in order to help

determine whether Rust as a language was suitable for the kernel,

i.e. worth the tradeoffs, technically, procedurally and socially.

At the 2025 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, the experiment has just

been deemed concluded [1].

Thus remove the section -- it was not fully true already anyway, since

there are already uses of Rust in production out there, some well-known

Linux distributions enable it and it is already in millions of devices

via Android.

Obviously, this does not mean that everything works for every kernel

configuration, architecture, toolchain etc., or that there won't be

new issues. There is still a ton of work to do in all areas, from the

kernel to upstream Rust, GCC and other projects. And, in fact, certain

combinations (such as the mixed GCC+LLVM builds and the upcoming GCC

support) are still quite experimental but getting there.

But the experiment is done, i.e. Rust is here to stay.

I hope this signals commitment from the kernel to companies and other

entities to invest more into it, e.g. into giving time to their kernel

developers to train themselves in Rust.

Thanks to the many kernel maintainers that gave the project their

support and patience throughout these years, and to the many other

developers, whether in the kernel or in other projects, that have

made this possible. I had a long list of 173 names in the credits of

the original pull that merged the support into the kernel [2], and now

such a list would be way longer, so I will not even try to compose one,

but again, thanks a lot, everybody."

Ce qu'il faut retenir : Rust n'est une expérimentation, Rust est là pour rester. Ce n'est pas pour autant que les débats dans la communauté s'arrêteront. 

L'opposition à Rust reste vivace et même si Linus a pesé sur ce choix, cela laissera des traces chez les mainteneurs du noyau.