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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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.

greg k-h