lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2022]   [Sep]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 5.4 097/120] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable
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.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2022-09-26 13:32    [W:0.608 / U:0.408 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site