Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
Following the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping helper maintainers.
Merged to the Linux 6.14 Git kernel is updating the DMA mapping maintainers entry. Christoph Hellwig has removed himself as a DMA mapping maintainer with explanation of:
Marek Szyprowski will now seemingly maintain the DMA mapping helpers on his own. The patch removing Hellwig as a maintainer was signed off by him and Linus Torvalds.
Hellwig will continue to be (co)maintainer for the NVMe driver, NVMe target driver, personality handling, and the FreeVXFS file-system areas of the kernel.
Merged to the Linux 6.14 Git kernel is updating the DMA mapping maintainers entry. Christoph Hellwig has removed himself as a DMA mapping maintainer with explanation of:
"Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree."
Marek Szyprowski will now seemingly maintain the DMA mapping helpers on his own. The patch removing Hellwig as a maintainer was signed off by him and Linus Torvalds.
Hellwig will continue to be (co)maintainer for the NVMe driver, NVMe target driver, personality handling, and the FreeVXFS file-system areas of the kernel.