Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
([Linux Kernel] 5 Hours Ago
DMA Mapping Helpers)
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Following [1]the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping helper maintainers.
[2]Merged to the Linux 6.14 Git kernel is updating the DMA mapping maintainers entry. Christoph Hellwig has removed himself as a DMA mapping maintainer with explanation of:
"Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree."
Marek Szyprowski will now seemingly maintain the DMA mapping helpers on his own. The patch removing Hellwig as a maintainer was signed off by him and Linus Torvalds.
Hellwig will continue to be (co)maintainer for the NVMe driver, NVMe target driver, personality handling, and the FreeVXFS file-system areas of the kernel.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Override-On-Rust-Code
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d5db965f3e
[2]Merged to the Linux 6.14 Git kernel is updating the DMA mapping maintainers entry. Christoph Hellwig has removed himself as a DMA mapping maintainer with explanation of:
"Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree."
Marek Szyprowski will now seemingly maintain the DMA mapping helpers on his own. The patch removing Hellwig as a maintainer was signed off by him and Linus Torvalds.
Hellwig will continue to be (co)maintainer for the NVMe driver, NVMe target driver, personality handling, and the FreeVXFS file-system areas of the kernel.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Override-On-Rust-Code
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7d5db965f3e
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