linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] Mass convert GPIO IRQ chips to be immutable

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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:44:40 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Mun Yew Tham <mun.yew.tham@...el.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, Alban Bedel <albeu@...e.fr>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>,
        Jay Fang <f.fangjian@...wei.com>,
        Daniel Palmer <daniel@...ngy.jp>,
        Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@...il.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] Mass convert GPIO IRQ chips to be immutable

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:45 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > We are getting tired of these irq_chips not getting converted
> > to be immutable, so I just take out the big hammer and fix
> > some that I deem not too complex as best I can.
> >
> > I stopped after doing some, I will take another sweep at some
> > point I guess.

> Normally these irq_chip conversions would go upstream as fixes but
> this time there are too many at once. I applied them to my
> gpio/for-next branch. Let's give them some time in next and later we
> can backport them if necessary.

That's fine since the maintainers didn't get around to fixing it themselves
yet anyway it can't be that important to them.

I will try to take a second sweep and see what is left on the floor, and
then I guess a sweep over the gpio_chips in pinctrl as well.

Yours,
Linus Walleij