| Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:40:02 -0400 | From | Marc Zyngier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5.4 097/120] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable |
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Greg,
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:12:10 -0400, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > > [ Upstream commit 94e9bc73d85aa6ecfe249e985ff57abe0ab35f34 ] > > This turns the IXP4xx GPIO irqchip into an immutable > irqchip, a bit different from the standard template due > to being hierarchical. > > Tested on the IXP4xx which uses drivers/ata/pata_ixp4xx_cf.c > for a rootfs on compact flash with IRQs from this GPIO > block to the CF ATA controller. > > Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
We had that discussion[1], and concluded that none of these should be backported to a kernel earlier than 5.19. 5.4 doesn't currently contain the relevant infrastructure, nor should that infrastructure should be backported either.
Can we *please* stop this?
M.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMRc=Md9JKdW8wmbun_0_1y2RQbck7q=vzOkdw6n+FBgpf0h8w@mail.gmail.com/
-- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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