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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 7 Aug 2022 10:55:04 -0700
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Subject: Re: mainline build failure for x86_64 allmodconfig with clang
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
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On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 10:36 AM David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
>
> Or just shoot the software engineer who thinks 100 arguments
> is sane. :-)

I suspect the issue is that it's not primarily a software engineer who
wrote that code.

Hardware people writing code are about as scary as software engineers
with a soldering iron.

               Linus