Interrupt chip driver maintainence

[Thomas Gleixner]

Folks!

I'm wading through my inbox full of patches for interrupt chip drivers
and I'm thoroughly annoyed. The way how this works today is not
sustainable.

Patches end up in my and Radu's inbox and all we can do is go through
them mostly on a formal basis, but it's out of our scope to look at the
correctness vs. a particular hardware. In the past I just picked up
patches when I had the gut feeling they are remotely correct, but I'm
tired of this.

I've just marked about 20 patches and patch series obsolete due to zero
feedback from the relevant architecture/SoC people who were on Cc.

And I'm going to do that from now on very consequently. If the
architecture, SoC experts can't be bothered to look after their stuff,
then don't expect me to suck all of this crap up and then deal with the
complaints when it breaks.

I'm still going to pick up obvious and simple bug fixes, but for
anything which requires deep knowledge on the underlying hardware, I'm
going to just mark them obsolete when they molded in my inbox unreviewed
by the people who understand it for six weeks.

Thanks,

        Thomas