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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    You’re entitled to think that, but most people speak well of me everywhere I’ve worked. Probably the negative thing is that I joke too much. But that’s probably awful for you to deal with.

    Edit: I’ve actually brought down the fire on someone who was verbally abusing others, but even then I took the diplomatic approach because I know that person was severely sleep deprived from having a newborn. What I actually did is advocate for them to have a paid week off of work. They were a completely different person afterwards.

    Edit: somehow the word “newborn” posted as just “n”