On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:18:14PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote: > 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)
Ok, fair enough, thanks for letting me know. I guess we can't drop it just yet :) greg k-h -- 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/
