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Title: Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17 For Being Late
and 'Garbage'

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/214...

"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture
changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the
RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17
merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1
release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux
6.17 on the basis of being late in the merge window especially with his
international travels this week being known. And he's unhappy with some of
the code included as part of this merge request. . Here's the text of
Torvalds' response... > RISC-V Patches for the 6.17 Merge Window, Part 1 No.
This is garbage and it came in too late. I asked for early pull requests
because I'm traveling, and if you can't follow that rule, at least make the
pull requests *good*. This adds various garbage that isn't RISC-V specific to
generic header files. And by "garbage" I really mean it. This is stuff that
nobody should ever send me, never mind late in a merge window. Like this
crazy and pointless make_u32_from_two_u16() "helper". That thing makes the
world actively a worse place to live. It's useless garbage that makes any
user incomprehensible, and actively *WORSE* than not using that stupid
"helper". If you write the code out as "(a In contrast, if you write
make_u32_from_two_u16(a,b) you have not a f%^5ing clue what the word order
is. IOW, you just made things *WORSE*, and you added that "helper" to a
generic non-RISC-V file where people are apparently supposed to use it to
make *other* code worse too. So no. Things like this need to get bent. It
does not go into generic header files, and it damn well does not happen late
in the merge window. You're on notice: no more late pull requests, and no
more garbage outside the RISC-V tree. Now, I would *hope* there's no garbage
inside the RISC-V parts, but that's your choice. But things in generic
headers do not get polluted by crazy stuff. And sending a big pull request
the day before the merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care
is not a winning strategy. So you get to try again in 6.18. EARLY in the that
merge window. And without the garbage. Torvalds' message drew a conciliatory
response from the submitter of the patches. "I'll stop being late, and
hopefully that helps with the quality issues."

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