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Message-ID: <5497691.DvuYhMxLoT@alarsen.net>
Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:02:17 +0200
From:   Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sparse Mailing-list <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro

On Wednesday, 2021-09-15 23:19 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, I didn't love any of the patches I saw for the qnx4 problem, so I
> silenced that warning with a new patch of my own. Like the sparc64
> case, the fix is to describe more extensively to the compiler what the
> code is actually doing.

thanks, looks good to me, too!

> Looking at the qnx4 code-base history, I don't think it has gotten any
> actual development outside of cleanups in the git history timeframe,
> which makes me suspect nobody uses this code.
> 
> But hey, maybe it just works so well for the very specialized user base ...

it's actually the latter (although I guess the user base is shrinking)

Cheers
Anders