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Comment by fluoridation

10 months ago

I'm just going by what was mentioned in the thread. If that interpretation is wrong, the thread makes no sense.

Fine. But, when I say something is out in out false, it might be worth checking your facts.

I'm willing to grant that it is possible Christoph Hellwig simply misunderstood the patch and overreacted.

    rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h |   1 +
    rust/kernel/dma.rs              | 271 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    rust/kernel/error.rs            |   1 +
    rust/kernel/lib.rs              |   1 +
    4 files changed, 274 insertions(+)
    create mode 100644 rust/kernel/dma.rs

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/8/801

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/9/398

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/10/619

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/29/999

>I'm just going by what was mentioned in the thread. If that interpretation is wrong, the thread makes no sense.

You've now discovered why this blew up in the first place. All of the excuses used to reject the code were not just petty but also outright false, and trivially so.