linux-kernel - Re: mainline build failure for x86

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Date:   Sun, 7 Aug 2022 10:55:04 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        "Siqueira, Rodrigo" <Rodrigo.Siqueira@....com>,
        clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        "Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)" <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: Re: mainline build failure for x86_64 allmodconfig with clang

On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 10:36 AM David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.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