Interrupt chip driver maintainence

[Paul Walmsley]

+ Samuel

Hi Thomas,

Sorry for the delay; I've been on vacation this week.

On Sat, 5 Sep 2026, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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

The approach you described above is fine.  Please feel free to ignore 
anything beyond bug fixes that doesn't have an appropriate ack, at least 
until we figure out how to broaden the pool of maintainers for those 
drivers.

For what it's worth, several other companies also adopted SiFive PLIC-like 
interrupt controllers, and reuse those drivers.  It would be great if 
kernel folks from those other companies can step in and help maintain the 
underlying code.


thanks,

- Paul