Re: [PATCH] gpio/davinci: add interrupt support for GPIOs 16-31

[Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>]

On Thursday 16 July 2015 11:11 PM, Vitaly Andrianov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/16/2015 05:04 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 July 2015 07:31 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interrupts for GPIOs 16 through 31 are enabled by bit 1 in the
>>>> "binten" register (offset 8). Previous versions of GPIO only
>>>> used bit 0, which enables GPIO 0-15 interrupts.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Reece Pollack <x0183204@ti.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@ti.com>
>>>
>>> Sekhar/Kevin: OK with this? We don't have a maintainer
>>> listed for davinci GPIO so I assume it's you guys...
>>
>> Hi Linus, I had reviewed this patch and there was a v2 send based on my
>> comments on July 03.
>>
>>> Should this be tagged for stable?
>>
>> Not sure about that. It affects Keystone devices. Vitaly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sekhar
>>
> We used this patch for a long time. So, I guess it is stable.

You misunderstood. Should this patch be marked for backporting to older
kernels because it fixes a critical issue on devices otherwise working
in that kernel? See Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Thanks,
Sekhar