Re: [PATCH 5.4 097/120] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 06:40:02AM -0400, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Greg,
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:12:10 -0400,
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > [ 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > We had that discussion[1], and concluded that none of these should be
> > backported to a kernel earlier than 5.19. 5.4 doesn't currently
> > contain the relevant infrastructure, nor should that infrastructure
> > should be backported either.
> >
> > Can we *please* stop this?
> >
> > 	M.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMRc=Md9JKdW8wmbun_0_1y2RQbck7q=vzOkdw6n+FBgpf0h8w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Sasha, what went wrong here?
>
> Now dropped from all but 5.19.y, thanks.

Sorry about that, I misunderstood Bartosz's reply and went off based on
that.

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Thanks,
Sasha