Linux

6174 readers

297 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system

Also check out:

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

190

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 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"don't quote the shouty bit; it's not all shouty"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

More like, "don't pick an inflammatory minor excerpt to represent a lengthy and well-reasoned post."

Similarly, don't choose a red fruit to represent a pine forest just because there happens to be an apple tree somewhere within. It's misleading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I agree with Linus's argument here. I also think the selected quotes are the main points in that argument, not just "inflammatory minor excerpts."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Mmmmmm Pineapple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

To be fair, it's entirely possible someone else made a post about this topic with an non-sensationalized title, but no one engaged with that one. Including us.