Re: [patch 0/8] genirq: Support for irq domains in generic irq chip - V2

From: Gerlando Falauto
Date: Mon May 13 2013 - 06:57:50 EST


Hi Thomas,

On 05/06/2013 04:30 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Changes vs. V1:

- Fixed the generic chip pointer thinko (Sebastian Hesselbarth)

- Proper support for mask cache

- Read mask hardware only for the first map of an generic chip
instance

- sun4i prefix irq functions proper


[removed all other individual recipients to avoid useless garbage],

thanks for taking care of this. Sorry for the late response, I have been away for a whole week with no email access.

I understand you are providing generic changes and it would be up to us to update individual drivers so to take advantage of those semplifications.
Please forgive me if I got this all wrong though.

I've got a few questions then:

1) What happened to your initial proposal of renaming gc->mask_cache to gc->shared_mask_cache? Does that mean you intend to keep compatibility so individual drivers can be updated one at a time?

2) What shall we do with such potential patches for individual drivers, given the dependencies on your work? Wait until yours get merged?

3) [a bit OT] anyone got a clue why I cannot see my previous patch series on patchwork.kernel.org? Neither can I find from within http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel.
I looked up '[PATCH v3b 0/9] refactoring for mask_cache' and could not find it, only some replies to the thread were shown.
Patches/messages from the same thread are correctly shown on news.gmane.org under gmane.linux.kernel, though threading is broken on my reader; they will not be found through the web interface for gmane.linux.kernel though.
I noticed this was a cross post to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (which I guess is something that should not be done under any circumstances). And all the above works just fine for -stable as opposed to LKML.
Could this cross-posting be the root cause for this whole mess?

Thanks!
Gerlando
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