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.
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.
Okay? And why are you imagining things would go down like that, when the policy is specifically not doing it this way? When this issue hasn’t occurred so far?
Rust is disabled by default, so it’s not like it would be harder to build a kernel when it’s broken. Seriously, I just don’t get why you’re imagining these things.
Because I am familiar with human behaviour.
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.
Human behavior doesn’t dictate that a Linux kernel with failing Rust builds wouldn’t get published.
Yes, the systems would notice that something broke. Those systems have no say in whether something gets released.