diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c8f47bf154f4..3f591629e953 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -410,9 +410,8 @@ F:	drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
 
 ALPHA PORT
 M:	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
-S:	Odd Fixes for 2.4; Maintained for 2.6.
 M:	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
-S:	Maintained for 2.4; PCI support for 2.6.
+M:	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
 F:	arch/alpha/
 
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/topology.h
index 36b3a30ba0e5..9251e13e144f 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ static const struct cpumask *cpumask_of_node(int node)
 {
 	int cpu;
 
+	if (node == -1)
+		return cpu_all_mask;
+
 	cpumask_clear(&node_to_cpumask_map[node]);
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {