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." - eviltoast
Re: Rust kernel policy - Linus Torvalds
lore.kernel.org

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.

  • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m very pleased to see Linus talking like this. I wish more of my relationships both professional and personal could operate with this level of straightforwardness.