Comment by kennysoona
1 day ago
Honestly I was waiting for a reply from Linux like this to put Hellwig in his place.
> The fact is, the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL.
> It was literally just another user of it, in a completely separate subdirectory, that didn't change the code you maintain in _any_ way, shape, or form.
> I find it distressing that you are complaining about new users of your code, and then you keep bringing up these kinds of complete garbage arguments.
Finally. If he had been sooner maybe we wouldn't have lost talented contributors to the kernel.
Ah I can't believe I misspelled Linus as Linux, seems like it should happen often enough but honestly I think I rarely make that typo.
I've made that mistake, and the inverse, often enough that I try to make sure to check I've written the correct word... and I still mess it up. Between the words being similar and the 'x' being right next to the 's' on US keyboard, it's bound to happen.
ON the flip side - when I (and I suspect many others) read Linux where Linus should be written, I rarely even notice and never really care because I've been there.
All this is a long winded way of saying: don't sweat it :) .
> Finally. If he had been sooner maybe we wouldn't have lost talented contributors to the kernel.
I feel that departure of the lead R4L developer was a compromise deliberately made to not make Hellwig feel like a complete loser. This sounds bad of course.
no lead R4L left because of the current situation. Marcan was the lead of Asahi Linux, not R4L. Wedson (which was one of the leads of R4L) left some time ago, before all of this, and his problem was not with Hellwig (or, at least it was not the one that brought the last drop).
edit: whitespace
Hellwig had a spat with asahi lina back then as well.
Marcan quitting wasn't a compromise, the resignation of a maintainer would never be used that way. Dude was just burnt out. I don't blame him at all, hopefully some time away from the situation does him some good.
Who quit?
https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch
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