linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/48] Make the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro globally accessible

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2015 20:34:22 +0200
From:	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
To:	Joël Porquet <joel@...quet.org>
Cc:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
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	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/48] Make the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro globally accessible

2015-07-02 20:23 GMT+02:00 Joël Porquet <joel@...quet.org>:
> On Thursday, July 02, 2015 12:33:05 PM Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> On Thursday 02 July 2015 04:02 AM, Joel Porquet wrote:
>> > At the moment the IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro is only declared locally in
>> > 'drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h'. That prevents from using it directly in
>> > arch/*
>> > directories whenever irqchip drivers only exist there, which happens in a
>> > few cases (e.g. arc, arm, microblaze and mips).
>> >
>> > This patch makes the macro to be globally defined, in
>> > include/linux/irqchip.h, and thus usable for arch-specific declarations
>> > of irqchip drivers. In this way, it is very similar to what clocksource
>> > does (ie CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE is defined in
>> > include/linux/clocksource.h).
>> >
>> > I split up everything into patches to make the integration easier. Please
>> > let me know if it's not, and in such case how to make it better.
>> >
>> > For now, patch 01 of this series transfers the declaration of the macro
>> > IRQCHIP_DECLARE to the global header 'include/linux/irqchip.h'. The
>> > following patches, from 02 to 47, modify all the irqchip drivers that use
>> > IRQCHIP_DECLARE, one by one. And finally, the last patch 48 removes the
>> > private and now useless header 'drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h'.
>>
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> I don't see the rest of series on lkml and/or the patch which touches
>> arch/arc. Also, you may wanna redo this after 4.2-rc1 anyways. For ARC
>> atleast, there's a new intc which would also require similar fixup. There
>> might be others ....
>>
>> Thx,
>> -Vineet
>
> Hi Vineet (and all),
>
> Sorry for the mistake, I hope I didn't spam anyone (too much). I realized to
> late that sending about fifty patches to 26 recipients was probably not a good
> idea, and my smtp provider would have blocked me before the end anyway.
>
> Therefore I will follow your suggestion and wait until after 4.2-rc1. Then
> I'll resubmit a new patchset that takes into account the new intc(s) as well.
>
> But since this patchset affects many files across several drivers and
> architectures, what would be the best way to submit it?
>
> Would it be OK to send the cover to all the maintainers/mailing-lists involved
> in order to inform them that a patchset is affecting their respective
> subsystem, but to send the patches only on the kernel mailing-list?

What I have seen recently is, that you send to each maintainer the
cover letter and the patch he is concerned about.
And put the kernel maling-list(s) in all patches as CC.

Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong.

Regrads,
Matthias

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