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On Sat, 2023-07-01 at 21:56 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We still have things like the aic7xxx scsi assembler thing that we do
> *not* make people build, and so we have shipped pre-built version of
> things like that.

The important point there is that the tool is in the tree, so everyone
uses the same version and gets the same output, so the output we check
into the tree is effectively universal.  Plus the tool has been
bitrotting quietly over the years, so what we have is more for
historical completeness now.

James