linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 2/5] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable

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Message-ID: <fec2e2e2e74d680d5f9de6d68fb5fe18@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:57:30 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, linusw@...nel.org,
        kaloz@...nwrt.org, khalasa@...p.pl,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 2/5] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable

On 2022-09-21 16:54, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.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@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>

Why? The required dependencies are only in 5,19, and are
definitely NOT a stable candidate...

This isn't a fix by any stretch of the imagination.

         M.
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