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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Rework READ_ONCE() to improve codegen
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:15 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> It's me again. This is version four of the READ_ONCE() codegen improvement
> patches [...]

Let's just plan on biting the bullet and do this for 5.8. I'm assuming
that I'll juet get a pull request from you?

> (I'm interpreting the silence as monumental joy)

By now I think we can take that for granted.

Because "monumental joy" is certainly exactly what I felt re-reading
that "unqualified scalar type" macro.

Or maybe it was just my breakfast trying to say "Hi!".

                 Linus