linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

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Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:28:01 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] alpha: cleanups and build fixes for 6.10

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:40:04PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-05-10 at 23:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The following changes since commit fec50db7033ea478773b159e0e2efb135270e3b7:
> > 
> >   Linux 6.9-rc3 (2024-04-07 13:22:46 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git tags/asm-generic-alpha
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to a4184174be36369c3af8d937e165f28a43ef1e02:
> > 
> >   alpha: drop pre-EV56 support (2024-05-06 12:05:00 +0200)
> 
> I'm still against dropping pre-EV56 so quickly without a proper phaseout period.
> Why not wait for the next LTS release? AFAIK pre-EV56 support is not broken, is
> it?

Sadly, yes, it is, and it has been broken in mainline for almost two
years.

							Thanx, Paul