Linus puts down the hammer

Posted Feb 23, 2025 2:16 UTC (Sun) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
In reply to: Linus puts down the hammer by Wol
Parent article: Linus on Rust and the kernel's DMA layer

Did you read the email from Linus? What part was not clear?

Other maintainers work hard too. They do not deserve to be completely blocked for reasons unrelated to design or code quality by somebody that does not agree with project decisions that have already been made above their paygrade.

Linus is quite clear. You have no authority over code you will not maintain (like USERS of your code). This maintainer somehow thought otherwise and was pulling absolute "never happening ever, ever, ever" rank over the contributions of others. Good people quit in frustration. The only possible resolution was for somebody with greater authority to break the tie.

What part of this response from Linus did you find unnecessary?

Linus puts down the hammer

Posted Feb 23, 2025 9:03 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> Did you read the email from Linus? What part was not clear?

I wasn't talking about Linus.

I simply do not understand Christoph's behaviour. How can he be doing such a good job in the area of API's, and yet blow up when other people try to help him?

Cheers,
Wol