That's not what he said. From the horse's mouth (lkml; Hellwig's headers chopped for brevity): On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:17:24PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrot

That's not what he said. From the horse's mouth (lkml; Hellwig's headers chopped for brevity): On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:17:24PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote: > Since there hasn't been a reply so far, I assume that we're good with > maintaining the DMA Rust abstractions separately. No, I'm not. This was an explicit: Nacked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> And I also do not want another maintainer. If you want to make Linux impossible to maintain due to a cross-language codebase do that in your driver so that you have to do it instead of spreading this cancer to core subsystems. (where this cancer explicitly is a cross-language codebase and not rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade). --- Hellwig was abrasive and unreasonable. But there is no need to perpetuate, repeat, and repost absolutely one-sided, self-serving misrepresentations of the words he used. You don't need to paraphrase. You don't need to guess. You don't need to distill or simplify. He wrote English so we could read it; stop paraphrasing. It's unhelpful at best and nefarious at worst. Edit: I think it's very telling that there is a crowd here that would literally downvote the actual quote. Actually it's more sad than anything.