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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)
submitted 2 days ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/asahilinux@lemmy.world
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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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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

You and I must be reading vastly different emails, then, because this whole thing happened because they weren't working through the issues.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Yes, but they (the maintainers) are working through the issue now.

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Now that people have permanently abandoned their projects... Wonderful leadership!

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Yes, now, months later, when two major developers have left and the dirty laundry is all over the media.

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