From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 23:42:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c585d63e73453082ecbf7ddc19d5116abdcfba79.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgZ_fCwC5iGri1KOEwdV90H-myv1gSfjHfCwt82ZXaCWQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2024-05-13 at 09:27 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 14:20, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git tags/asm-generic-alpha
>
> Well, despite the discussion about timing of this, I have pulled this.
> I still have a fond spot for alpha, even if it has the worst memory
> ordering ever devised, but the lack of byte operations was an
> inexcusable "we can deal with that in the compiler" senior moment in
> the design. So good riddance.
As someone who spends a lot of personal time and energy and even money into
Linux, I have to say the way this change was steamrolled into the kernel
without any real discussion actually hurts.
It's days like these when I'm starting to question my efforts.
Adrian
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2024-05-10 21:19 ` [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10 Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-10 21:40 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-10 22:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-11 18:49 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-11 19:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-11 20:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-12 1:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-12 6:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-12 14:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-13 3:50 ` Akira Yokosawa
2024-05-13 4:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-13 6:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-05-13 9:26 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-13 16:52 ` Ulrich Teichert
2024-05-13 21:44 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-13 7:10 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-12 6:17 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2024-05-13 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-05-13 21:42 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2024-05-31 2:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2024-05-13 17:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
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