this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
87 points (100.0% liked)

Asahi Linux

150 readers
209 users here now

Unofficial community for the Asahi Linux project

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
sdu
87
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
37 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] non_burglar 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have... Had you not heard any Linus rant before this? This is pretty tame.

[โ€“] Hominine 6 points 1 day ago

Precisely my point.