[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 2/5] gpio: ixp4xx: Make irqchip immutable

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:04:27PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:57 PM Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-09-21 16:54, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit 94e9bc73d85aa6ecfe249e985ff57abe0ab35f34 ]
>> >
>> > This turns the IXP4xx GPIO irqchip into an immutable
>> > irqchip, a bit different from the standard template due
>> > to being hierarchical.
>> >
>> > Tested on the IXP4xx which uses drivers/ata/pata_ixp4xx_cf.c
>> > for a rootfs on compact flash with IRQs from this GPIO
>> > block to the CF ATA controller.
>> >
>> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>> > Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl at bgdev.pl>
>> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
>>
>> Why? The required dependencies are only in 5,19, and are
>> definitely NOT a stable candidate...
>>
>> This isn't a fix by any stretch of the imagination.
>>
>
>Hi Marc,
>
>While I didn't mark it for stable (and it shouldn't go into any branch
>earlier than 5.19.x), I did send the patches making the irqchips
>immutable to Linus Torvalds as fixes as they technically do *fix* the
>warning emitted by gpiolib and make the implementation correct.
>
>I think these patches should still be part of the v5.19.x stable branch.

Yes, and as far as I see we are taking those fixes too.

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Thanks,
Sasha