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Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 03:53:23 +0100 (BST)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10
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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