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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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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The contributor's frustration with Linus started with Linus ignoring multiple explicit requests for his intervention. When the contributor was so frustrated at the lack of response from Linus that he had the audacity to talk about it off list (linking here because the original toot has been deleted), it was at that point that Linus finally chimed in to tell the contributor "Maybe the problem is you," implying that Hellwig's obstructionism was not a problem in his eyes and that the only issue was the contributor drawing public attention to it.

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    you went from "ignored" to "lack of response" in one sentence there. either way you're implying a malicious ignorance on Linus' part

    the contributor posted 29th and went "public" on the 4th. they lasted a whole 5 days before throwing their toys out of the mailing list pram into social media

    Linus deemed this behaviour problematic and started to assess the situation. contributor quit

    eventually Linus responds by reminding Hellwig of the situation. nothing has changed. R4L continues with the same rules as before.

    do you really think burnout happens because of one incident? it takes time and Hellwig and co have been the problem that entire time, not Linus

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