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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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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Nobody in that thread quit because of the way Linus talked. If was because of the way they were talking to each other.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They quit because other people spoke to them that way under Linus' absent leadership.

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