linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Downgrade ocxl to Odd Fixes

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Message-ID: <c40ea685-39c2-41a1-95d7-435d4dfcc58e@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:45:03 +0100
From: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Christophe Lombard <clombard@...ux.ibm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Downgrade ocxl to Odd Fixes

Hi,

Le 20/11/2025 à 04:16, Andrew Donnellan a écrit :
> There hasn't been any substantive work on the ocxl driver since 2020, and
> all patches since then have been minor fixes or part of treewide or
> arch-wide changes. Frederic and I are no longer spending much time on this
> driver.
> 
> Downgrade the status of the ocxl driver to Odd Fixes, to reflect the
> current reality.

There one patch in patchwork at the time being, will you handle it ?

"ocxl: Fix race leading to use-after-free in file operations"

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20251024010228.1667904-1-danisjiang@gmail.com/

Christophe

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ea8194ac8970d0e34421670b663347b4678a34de..3d558554f074916364b013855dc0a82cfb6e73f2 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -18755,7 +18755,7 @@ OCXL (Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface OpenCAPI) DRIVER
>   M:	Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>
>   M:	Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
>   L:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> -S:	Supported
> +S:	Odd Fixes
>   F:	Documentation/userspace-api/accelerators/ocxl.rst
>   F:	arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h
>   F:	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/ocxl.c
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 23cb64fb76257309e396ea4cec8396d4a1dbae68
> change-id: 20251120-ocxl-odd-fixes-6a87a68dd270
> 
> 
> --
> Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
> ajd@...ux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited
> 
>