From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F289C4A99CC for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:07:37 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789150062; cv=none; b=Y744BMFYv2vSNO/8ovBELsBQhqHnF+hm2Un7Hch74GG8P+gT/P3+1cTC99DOaQVapa6ogKm5OYnf0pQQjqhu8VKxibkA1qy0OcHLUtPnH5VrNH6xkP/pvXokwysy6zDrtIFn7B5NWjG/qYivKiZdrGyl0Kcgg3Z3abz/HicyqXU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789150062; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/K5I1l+PxMb6ZvkU3JIwQfwoQeRN3gokPRAeMBzhkhQ=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=GiBL6h8msMs9RwVtH6p4VNwNAOmU+y73vz+TzUmDFKIplzw3TYBKyCduUrFDEcGfOB5X2xuUfrnGmP4/FvCpXuqHmTvVRMNTDe2Gwfi3w3D4ael2spmayqWfGWdwxP/qKl3ymkEMl//i1aSUhZOk2O+gvLgTeyamS6Kzst6ORxc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=okGWbp7g; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="okGWbp7g" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD4D11F000FF; Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:07:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1789150054; bh=UChGTTKXear8gQd2Dj9H+VICAHM0s5K1F+6xOkJhwk8=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=okGWbp7gf4AeBkG9/1Ay3g134R1cA7gjJeSJln7cqv1+wr822XQAFp7ViyNSs/fEy z7zj8wp3HAgD3z32sFxFD8ENpA/QsUoDi9IeetJuRhIJjdJ1dPbP3c2BqKBLL6JFrv ZR1uZdclFtaZwkCNcFg+RtgSjSwltBsGB3p4JNqI9cjQ/l2YggHMqpjWlrDdmgyHbE f7YYyYyao8MceMxbecrRVMxzoBexwY7gsB6gWoUXbnbZXtWn7LMuheBUflTFoQHW71 PMQS9WRNx6sj5ZymzSoBsPVKT5HKAPP7qX+WVkBk4bs7s8JFJtHyuOf+fiTviwYY3a H6b8m5iaN6e/w== Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:07:31 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Walmsley To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Anup Patel , LKML , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Radu Rendec , Marc Zyngier , Paul Walmsley , samuel.holland@sifive.com Subject: Re: Interrupt chip driver maintainence In-Reply-To: <87ecf74c8r.ffs@fw13> Message-ID: <295ecaaa-fca0-05c2-ddaf-ad3a2985776d@kernel.org> References: <871pb9841j.ffs@fw13> <87ecf74c8r.ffs@fw13> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323329-1429182635-1789150055=:1495113" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323329-1429182635-1789150055=:1495113 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT + Samuel Hi Thomas, Sorry for the delay; I've been on vacation this week. On Sat, 5 Sep 2026, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, Sep 05 2026 at 16:37, Anup Patel wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> 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. > [ ... ] > > I don't know what's wrong with SiFive but they really need to get their > act together. Paul? The approach you described above is fine. Please feel free to ignore anything beyond bug fixes that doesn't have an appropriate ack, at least until we figure out how to broaden the pool of maintainers for those drivers. For what it's worth, several other companies also adopted SiFive PLIC-like interrupt controllers, and reuse those drivers. It would be great if kernel folks from those other companies can step in and help maintain the underlying code. thanks, - Paul --8323329-1429182635-1789150055=:1495113--