linux-kernel - Re: Finish the GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 15:15:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
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Subject: Re: Finish the GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER conversion

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> A while ago I sent a patch set that adds a GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER,
> which is an exact copy of the existing IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER support in the
> arm port, which is being used unconditionally by arm64 and openrisc.
> GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER is currently being used by the RISC-V port.  I
> managed to make a few mistakes in my original patch set and as a result
> my conversion of the other architectures of GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
> was dropped.
> 
> This patch set finishes up my original patch set by converting arm,
> arm64, and openrisc over to the new GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER support
> and then removing MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER as it's obselete.
> 
> At the time I wrote this I gave it fairly extensive build testing, but
> went I recently rebased it I just tested the full patch set on arm,
> arm64, and openrisc defconfigs.
> 
> Various flavors of this patch set have bounced around a few times
> before, but I'm calling this a whole new patch set as it builds on top
> of what was merged.

I'll take the whole pile through tip irq/core which probably makes the most
sense unless there are any objections from architecture maintainers.

Thanks,

	tglx