Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Alex Gaynor as Rust maintainer

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Sun Oct 26 2025 - 10:36:36 EST


On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this
> acknowledges that.
>
> Geoffrey Thomas and I created the "linux-kernel-module-rust" project at PyCon
> in 2018, as an experiment to see if we could make it possible to write kernel
> modules in Rust. The Rust for Linux effort has far exceeded anything we could
> have expected at the time.
>
> I want to thank all the Rust for Linux contributors, past and present, who have
> helped make this a reality -- and in particularly Miguel, who really
> transformed this project from an interesting demo to something that could
> really land in mainline.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Alex for the kind words, it has been a pleasure!

Cheers,
Miguel