On Mon, 13 May 2024, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > 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. FWIW, me too (the other factor being recurring PSU failures). Sigh... Maciej