cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25857381

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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    2 days ago

    He is totally correct and it is great to see him finally step in to settle this drama. Hopefully it will reduce the level of noise going forward.