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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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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

To be clear I fully support Rust in Linux. I just think it's going to rapidly be impractical to work on Linux without learning Rust.

The solution isn't to pretend that isn't the case; it's to learn Rust!

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