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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25857381

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.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlM
    82·
    1 day ago

    A lot of people commenting on this seem to have gaps in their knowledge of what happened

    We’re in a Linus-email-🍿-thread, so that kind of goes without saying doesn’t it? 😂