Christoph Hellwig steps down from one of his kernel roles following Rust drama

by dingion 2/26/25, 10:03 AMwith 13 comments
by rdtscon 2/26/25, 4:25 PM

Linus' reply to Christoph https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066

> What's next? Saying that particular drivers can't do DMA, because you don't like that device, and as a DMA maintainer you control who can use the DMA code? That's _literally_ exactly what you are trying to do with the Rust code.

Linus did the right thing eventually and spoke up

by elchananHaason 2/26/25, 9:43 PM

I like how this change was done with no excess drama and that Christoph is continuing to stay involved with Linux. This could be a break for the controversy to cool down and the developers to get back to developing.