Re: Linux 6.11-rc1

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, at 01:47, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 14:35, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect we can fix the alpha issue with the trivial
>> change below (haven't tested yet), but the way we are
>> inconsistent about these will likely keep biting us
>> unless we come up with a better way to handle them
>> across architectures.
>
> Well, looking around, the other functions (ie things like
> iowrite64be_lo_hi() etc) do end up being handled by lib/iomap.c, and
> parisc does seem to implement its own versions.
>
> So this may in fact be the only such case.
>
> Knock wood.
>
> Your suggested patch looks ObviouslyCorrect(tm) to me. I assume I'll
> get it through the normal channels after testing?

Yes, I've sent it with a proper description to the alpha
maintainers for feedback now and queued it up in the
asm-generic tree:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240730152744.2813600-1-arnd@kernel.org/T/#u

I also sent a fix for the uretprobe syscall number mess, will
send both once we have agreed on how to do that.

      Arnd