On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Greg KH" <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> To: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> >> Cc: "Huang Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul >> McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, >> "David Howells" <dhowe...@redhat.com>, "Pranith Kumar" >> <bobby.pr...@gmail.com>, sta...@vger.kernel.org >> Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:16:25 PM >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] llist: Fix missing lockless_dereference() >> >> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> > A lockless_dereference() appears to be missing in llist_del_first(). >> > It should only matter for Alpha in practice. >> >> Meta-comment, do we really care about Alpha anymore? Is it still >> consered an "active" arch we support? I haven't seen a single >> alpha-related stable patch in _years_ if at all, which implies to me >> that no one is even using it. >> >> Not that stable patches for architectures are a valid reference for how >> much they are used, but it does give me a good indication of what arches >> have users that actually care about a modern (i.e. within the past 5 >> years) kernel. > > Good question. Adding the Alpha maintainers to the CC. > > Thanks, > > Mathieu
Hello, Yes, Gentoo has a maintained Alpha port. We care about having modern kernels (though I have not personally had a lot of time to work on that recently) Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
