exactly; and i think Hellwig is on the wrong side of free software philosophy on this point. the fundamental philosophical core of free software is that the downstream user must be empowered to use the software as they see fit.
Someone can use your text parsing program to run a nuclear power plant, that's fine. The same person can't make you to accept the nuclear power plant control script as part of your repository, and support the "nuclear power plant controlling functionality" of your text parsing program.
from Linus:
> You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. [...] So when you change the C interfaces, the Rust people will have to deal with the fallout, and will have to fix the Rust bindings.
sounds like it's structured as a downstream user to me.
The fact that he was not allowed to do that is exactly why he escalated.
> The fact is, the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL. It was literally just another user of it, in a completely separate subdirectory, that didn't change the code you maintain in _any_ way, shape, or form.