Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

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On Mon, 2024-05-13 at 09:27 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 at 14:20, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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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