Extra work?

Posted Feb 5, 2025 5:23 UTC (Wed) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)
In reply to: Extra work? by LtWorf
Parent article: Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

Eh?

Code, not maintained by him, breaks, and holds up a release.

This really shouldn't hold up anything on his end at all.

If Linus, who is responsible for releases, complains, that makes sense to me. But not Hellwig.

Per the article, he said he is blocking it because he doesn't want a multi-language kernel. We should take him at his word.