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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 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago

God damn... In the amount of time that people have talked about all of this drama all of these guys could have learned how to write Rust.

But seriously, Linus has been right at every turn here. He was right for telling Marcan that he handled it poorly by taking it to social media, and he's right here too about opting out of Rust.