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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)

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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.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Instead of thinking about the bindings as part of the sub-system, think of them as part of the driver. That is what Linus is saying here.

The Rust code will be maintained, by those writing Rust code. By those writing the drivers. These are not junior people.

Except the bindings are written so that they can be used not just by this driver but others as well.

If companies write crappy code that calls into these bindings, that is nothing new. They do that today with C. Like C, the code will not be accepted if crappy and / or there is nobody credible to maintain it.

None of this is a good argument for not letting these bindings in.