Re: [PATCH 1/1] gpio: vf610: make irq_chip immutable

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:19:28 +0000,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 8:36 AM Alexander Stein
> <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since recently, the kernel is nagging about mutable irq_chips:
> >
> >     "not an immutable chip, please consider fixing it!"
> >
> > Drop the unneeded copy, flag it as IRQCHIP_IMMUTABLE, add the new
> > helper functions and call the appropriate gpiolib functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
> 
> Looks good to me, CC to Marc Z.

Looks wrong to me. This is missing the explicit callbacks into gpiolib
so that it knows what gets enabled/disabled on mask/unmask.

>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> We fixed quite a few of these now, Marc do you have an idea about
> how much we have left until we can make immutable the default?

I haven't tracked that, and making it the default would probably mean
getting rid of the code that patches the irqchip structures. I'd say
that once -rc1 is out, we replace the polite nag with something
nastier (WARN_ON() of some sort), and push that into -next.

Leave the warning in place for a couple of releases (until the next
LTS), and then drop the patching code. The not-so-nice part is that
that drivers that haven't been fixed will break silently. The good
side is that these drivers will not have been touched over 2 LTS
releases, and are thus most likely abandonware.

Thanks,

	M.

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