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

by dingi on 2/26/25, 10:03 AM with 13 comments

• by rdtsc on 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 elchananHaas on 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.