linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/gdb: Fix interrupts.py after maple tree conversion

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Message-Id: <20250624165000.ecf2a00a55fd267befa6fdb4@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:50:00 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
 Kieran Bingham <kbingham@...nel.org>, Tony Ambardar
 <tony.ambardar@...il.com>, Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@...cle.com>,
 Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@...dia.com>, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/gdb: Fix interrupts.py after maple tree
 conversion

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:27:45 -0700 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com> wrote:

> In commit 721255b9826b ("genirq: Use a maple tree for interrupt
> descriptor management"), the irq_desc_tree was replaced with a
> sparse_irqs tree using a maple tree structure.
> 
> A new module (mapletree.py) is added whose mtree_load() implementation
> is largely copied after the C version and uses the same variable and
> intermediate function names wherever possible to ensure that both the C
> and Python version be updated in the future.

butbutbut.  What is actually being "fixed" here?  The above contains no
description of any problem.