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minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 hours agohttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/293df3d54bad446e8fd527f204c6dc301354e340.camel@mailbox.org/ 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-up1·1 hour 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.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/293df3d54bad446e8fd527f204c6dc301354e340.camel@mailbox.org/
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.