No, he said very explicitly that he is against any Rust code in Linux whatsoever. He doesn't have any beef with Rust, the same would be true for him if people tried to add C++ or Pascal or Ada or any other kind of drivers or infra in Linux: he believes that the project will be much harder to maintain if it's not 100% pure C (and assembly).

Here is a link to this explicit claim: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250131075751.GA1672...