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Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG." (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 1 day ago by that_leaflet to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25857381

Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA subsystem. Hellwig previously blocked rust bindings for DMA code, which in part resulted in Hector Martin from stepping down as a kernel maintainer and eventually Asahi Linux as a whole.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Linus ain't wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really appreciated him saying 'I don't want yes men, I need people to call me on my bullshit, but I'm calling you out on yours'.

I read through the next few replies, and it seems like the anti-rust maintainer just has an axe to grind and can't stand people working in a language they don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

He understands Rust and claims to like it. He simply disagrees with the decision to have a mixed language kernel and is trying to unilaterally stop it from happening.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is totally correct and it is great to see him finally step in to settle this drama. Hopefully it will reduce the level of noise going forward.