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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by kennysoona on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:01AM (#43124826)
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.

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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by kombine on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:44AM (#43125448)
> 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.

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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by josefx on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:21AM (#43125628)
Who quit?
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by __s on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:42PM (#43130496)
https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by josefx on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:55PM (#43130660)
Aren't R4L and Asahi Linux separate projects?
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by __s on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:27AM (#43138807)
Yes, but that's the most recent one I assume people are talking about

But maybe they mean https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@...

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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by fdrs on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:44AM (#43126109)
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

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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by iknowstuff on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:15AM (#43140260)
Hellwig had a spat with asahi lina back then as well.
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by dralley on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:57AM (#43128983)
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.
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by kennysoona on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:06AM (#43125869)
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.
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Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" by sophacles on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:03PM (#43129995)
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 :) .

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