Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

Posted by bob on Sep 18, 2026 7:20 PM EDT
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Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...

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