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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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

Linux is going to implode because they have zero level-headed people involved.

[-] notanapple@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

From what I have read, just a decade or so back the LKML was far more toxic (though now the times have also changed).

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