Interrupt chip driver maintainence

Thomas Gleixner tglx at kernel.org
Sat Sep 5 14:30:44 PDT 2026


On Sat, Sep 05 2026 at 16:37, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx at kernel.org> 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 think this is a fair ask.
>
> Currently, I am focused on reviewing and testing anything which
> touches RISC-V AIA drivers. The SiFive PLIC driver on other hand
> seems to have no active reivewers from RISC-V space. Few years
> back I did try to actively review SiFive PLIC driver but these days
> I don't have bandwidth for that.

I don't blame you and I put you on the CC list because you are in the
RISCV space.

I don't know what's wrong with SiFive but they really need to get their
act together. Paul?

Thanks,

        tglx



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