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Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG." (lore.kernel.org)

submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because I am familiar with human behaviour.

Human behavior doesn't dictate that a Linux kernel with failing Rust builds wouldn't get published.

I’m not too familiar with Linux’s CI system but I assume they at least test that it compiles, even if it is disabled by default.

Yes, the systems would notice that something broke. Those systems have no say in whether something gets released.