• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    So you think Hellwig doesn’t understand what is and isn’t intended to go into the kernel/dma that dma maintainers would then be responsible for?

    You don’t seem to be familiar with either the full conversation the developers had (its all available) or you don’t understand how the Linux project is structured and maintained.

    From the email chain:

    On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:17:24PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:

    Since there hasn’t been a reply so far, I assume that we’re good with maintaining the DMA Rust abstractions separately.

    No, I’m not. This was an explicit:

    Nacked-by: Christoph Hellwig

    And I also do not want another maintainer. If you want to make Linux impossible to maintain due to a cross-language codebase do that in your driver so that you have to do it instead of spreading this cancer to core subsystems. (where this cancer explicitly is a cross-languagecodebase and not rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade).

    • Corbin@programming.dev
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      1 hour ago

      Martin’s already in the list of maintainers for another subsystem; this is a territorial play by Hellwig. Any kernel developer would recognize this; you don’t seem especially familiar with kernel social dynamics either! Also please fix your formatting if you’re going to copy-and-paste rather than linking.