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 79065423160 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2026 14:58:30 +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=1788533911; cv=none; b=TK27Dme03CBGc22c7k3lgJov2QyAI7+ZRSGuBCsKkoykYIWkteegn3pzwlJg8tISXd+BYJOG4tM/ZJ839MqRFy9YTqdATojyuOUlNgWddAyNRm+x0Ndu+a4jx8CECMvxpGO6B7zrB6XbWhv3k7dgHEfNKCUJN7qI/Y53tNF6FHY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788533911; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Joy7m/lJ/aaZYaObUwGRo6EVVybjz0wm9+9zminSyzo=; h=Date:Message-ID:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=HTxi0GqgNfpIX6OVQNnQU5Tbr1lstxqAzfTZ2VGAt30QpIsT4fovtrJ/ZoEWvvM+8qBir3YE00nF+N7hXM+rjVm3Y155+GgDKETLLOYSbqxXv5k5lWeqMGEa3Kj28HZ+66ht6AjffpXlgJgP6L6S8aTJk3WSmF8Lxfy+iQSdiaw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=W2N8Zp/o; 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="W2N8Zp/o" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0390A1F00A3D; Fri, 4 Sep 2026 14:58:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1788533910; bh=raL05OcO6NoZ4LQ42XeSiuFqhaiAOq8+yzkxYrgfcOA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=W2N8Zp/ohA9ZWVhJHBgJG9cUdYgXIMIGDIvkeBJhppqGxU+gM20ijg9pjv/CQ/xFt jX3CowWthjEkwIweQIbJ2x/DIJdRsW2MgI6swPd/iDQDxWMPO+qnU+I40Rafpjqh7A D5nEUwitrdEwR1aILqPE656XZhXTjAaIkieHGBH5J2AJcKgqfeAScECZDvHGOZCZsv xIRWZhMVR6LeTJojfFlu2BvsyXK9U/XHUkviLkgxJzTdMt8Pl8VCXXili99XwzzeAl ZT4uBe9iGIXuONmVsVZ8/V2LN16PDnYTDH4Jb3jCN6BCH1zbUHLTElzdCjXowrXQDH 688EjY26Vf9WA== Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=lobster-girl.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1x2VN6-00000004uQP-0ZCz; Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:58:28 +0000 Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:01:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87qzj93vtd.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Radu Rendec , Anup Patel , Paul Walmsley Subject: Re: Interrupt chip driver maintainence In-Reply-To: <871pb9841j.ffs@fw13> References: <871pb9841j.ffs@fw13> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/30.1 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: tglx@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, radu@rendec.net, anup@brainfault.org, pjw@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:49:44 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > 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. Works for me. I didn't expect anything else. Thanks, M. -- Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.