Interrupt chip driver maintainence

[Nam Cao]

Thomas Gleixner <tglx at kernel.org> writes:
> 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 have hardware to test the SiFive PLIC. I also spent quite some time
staring at the specification attempting to cleanse the mess we have for
plic_irq_eoi() (which sadly yielded nothing).

I can help looking at patches. Would that help moving things forward?

Nam