genirq: Generic irq chip available in git

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:22:22AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:25:42PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks, now pulled into the 'consolidation-irq' branch.  If people
> > > wish to send the per-SoC patches to the patch system, or put them
> > > in their git trees, or indeed whatever, that stuff can be merged
> > > onto that branch so its easier to see where the IRQ consolidation
> > > is at.
> 
> > I've had nothing further from anyone on this since merging it.  If people
> > aren't using this stuff then there's no point it sitting in my tree, and
> > there's no point me sending it to mainline as part of my merges.
> 
> > So I'm dropping the branch out of the merges for the time being.
> 
> Would it not make sense to go ahead and apply all the patches that
> maintainers already acked?  I rather suspect many people had thought
> that Thomas' future pushes of the code would also include the patches
> that they'd already approved and haven't realised that they need to
> manually push the patches to you.

Which involves me having to read through the entire thread yet again to
figure out what state each patch is at, save them out, edit them to add
each ack to relevant patches, copy the lot to another machine, and then
apply them.

The workload there is on the wrong person.