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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    2 days ago

    From what I have read, just a decade or so back the LKML was far more toxic (though now the times have also changed).