Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)

[Icenowy Zheng]

于 2025年2月13日 GMT+08:00 19:34:16，Danilo Krummrich <dakr at kernel.org> 写道：
>On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 11:49:20AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>> 在 2025-02-10星期一的 11:24 +0100，Danilo Krummrich写道：
>> > 
>> > (Additionally, in this particular case even one of the reviewers of
>> > DMA MAPPING HELPERS offered to be a reviewer of the Rust abstractions
>> > too, in
>> > order to keep eye on the DMA API angle.)
>> 
>> Sorry, but I did a fact check on this, and I found that the only
>> "reviewer" of DMA MAPPING HELPERS is Robin Murphy, he has only one
>> reply in this thread, and the reply only says "Indeed, FWIW it seems
>> like the appropriate level of abstraction to me, 
>> judging by the other wrappers living in rust/kernel/ already", he
>> didn't offer to be a reviewer,
>
>As Abdiel pointed out already, he did offer it in [1].
>
>But that's not the relevant part, but I think how you handled being in doubt is
>relevant.
>
>I think the correct way would have been to just ask for a pointer that proves
>the statement in question.
>
>Instead you just went ahead with the big words "fact check" and then even got it
>wrong. In your "fact check" you did not put any disclaimer to e.g. indicate that
>you might not have the full picture, etc

Well I'm sorry for using a too heavy word. I am not native English speaker
and not ablr to understand its suitability well.

>Ultimately, the way you replied to this, comes across as an immediate accuse of
>lying.
>
>I really think that we should *not* pick up this way of arguing that nowadays
>became all too present.
>
>- Danilo
>
>[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/4956d01e-2d06-4edd-813b-9da94b482069@arm.com/