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minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agohttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ General idea seems to be “keep your glue outside of core subsystems”, not “do not create cross-language glue, I will do everything in my power to oppose this”.
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThis creates a lot of extra work for no benefit, as every driver that needs DMA would have to include their own copy of the DMA stuff.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThey still can share code. Just not maintained by dma.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
General idea seems to be “keep your glue outside of core subsystems”, not “do not create cross-language glue, I will do everything in my power to oppose this”.
This creates a lot of extra work for no benefit, as every driver that needs DMA would have to include their own copy of the DMA stuff.
They still can share code. Just not maintained by dma.