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

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Mar 10 2023 - 17:45:47 EST


On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:45 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> 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