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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)
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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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[–] arendjr@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But he did step in, albeit privately. I actually agree an earlier public statement would have helped, but we don’t know the specifics of what went on behind the scenes.

In any case, I don’t think it’s fair to assign blame for Marcan’s burnout to Linus, as the post above did. Marcan himself mentioned personal reasons too when he announced his departure. I think we should show understanding and patience with both sides, and assigning blame isn’t helping with that.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to assign blame for Marcan's burnout, but it's important to try and understand what went wrong here, because things did go wrong. Linus's earlier inaction (I haven't seen anything about reaching out privately, could you link that?) isn't the cause of it, but it's what should have prevented things from going this far.

If we ignore what went wrong, the same thing will happen again.