From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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: Fri, 31 May 2024 03:53:23 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2405310350360.23854@angie.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c585d63e73453082ecbf7ddc19d5116abdcfba79.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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
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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
2024-05-31 2:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2024-05-13 17:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
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