cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25857381

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.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    1 day ago

    A lot of people commenting on this seem to have gaps in their knowledge of what happened. I highly recommend reading the linked email, as it is both short and has valuable context.

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        On the bottom of the page you have a tree representation of replies, with clickable links to each message. The layout might not work well on mobile with limited screen width though, but you can just click through them.

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      22 hours ago

      A lot of people commenting on this seem to have gaps in their knowledge of what happened

      We’re in a Linus-email-🍿-thread, so that kind of goes without saying doesn’t it? 😂