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Well, one side just quit. And that particular side was told by Linus Torvalds himself that his way of Social Media brigading is inappropriate for kernel develo
by Longhanks 2y ago
Well, one side just quit.
And that particular side was told by Linus Torvalds himself that his way of Social Media brigading is inappropriate for kernel development, and that the current process works.
I choose to believe Linus. His work on and guidance of the kernel used to and still does work pretty great.
- steveklabnik 2y agoThe person who quit was not the author of the patch, or a member of Rust for Linux.
- alchemio 2y agoSo they stirred a whole lot of drama for not much, potentially harming R4L.
- steveklabnik 2y agoI am not willing to pass a value judgement on his decision to do this, but I do agree that I don't think it ended up being helpful to R4L.
- iczero 2y agoThe person who quit wrote the Linux graphics driver for Apple M-series GPUs in Rust. edit: I may have gotten some things confused, please see below
- mort96 2y agoNo. The person who quit upstream kernel work is Marcan, the head of the Asahi Linux project. The person who developed the kernel driver for M-series GPUs is Lina.
- platybubsy 2y ago[flagged]
- mort96 2y ago[flagged]
- bitbasher 2y ago[flagged]
- anonfordays 2y ago[flagged]
- anonfordays 2y agoNot sure why my comment was flagged, but marcan is Asahi Lina. There is demonstrable proof in threads all over this comment section.
- mort96 2y agoNo, the entirety of the Rust for Linux kernel development community didn't just quit. One guy quit. There are plenty of other kernel developers who are trying to push Rust 4 Linux forwards and make it viable for more kinds of drivers.