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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/asahilinux

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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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[–] CeeBee_Eh 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, but they (the maintainers) are working through the issue now.

[–] Ledivin 6 points 1 day ago

Now that people have permanently abandoned their projects... Wonderful leadership!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, now, months later, when two major developers have left and the dirty laundry is all over the media.