From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA8681DDC08; Tue, 4 Nov 2025 00:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762216205; cv=none; b=MCcyM+yDBYXqU8eIMriWOgcOFc/ptbnEXmA430Dtu8zTXuDOvjsFc/iDSToonoUC7+FWoilbyFG71AASH+kx9Kk/NfL+E01Un80hOMIaBipPrXx+H3a4MBo1Y/dwtDytuPB4D1JP2llNCf1NO0wSOt0xAmEn5u/dusZQrn7tbC8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762216205; c=relaxed/simple; bh=iJMJNhNBLd6Bi9oD1RrYVw+Wsn/1D4yN1mvr6iSp99c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=s7y6xDEYfRC5n3w4i1nUWIHqvzshQj5skT5INmZBB0vSquXaIo6V2tBvJV5Vo1AxVH94Gb8hKiUtad8uS1/twFjXY5I4WynmRjnN6Ygi0FXp1bc0x2fP90Y/JruWSVwqwrarVt4+Z3b9LcI0QsZEtK9pVQ612oeY/3/WgTFsfxU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=udnemSmg; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="udnemSmg" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C071C4CEE7; Tue, 4 Nov 2025 00:30:05 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1762216205; bh=iJMJNhNBLd6Bi9oD1RrYVw+Wsn/1D4yN1mvr6iSp99c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=udnemSmgJ5Twje+pwLqijw3+rrKwcnQZ4Bd7Sy0f9MMXUyr64RTyPxCGERy0A68mW enek+oOpibPe+UxPtcF3MYY9P2ce1rWku5vbWYJmItouzReyAMozdHPvua4sw0LZ53 kQI0aasqvcbSWj39jVureDRztmi9ePp/AkfWXhzIrvtt4PxMD1C0yqAnLWjtDyFsZG r5rt1FTdc/ii1ciOKftR1FA4SjrPUdMADYMSZLleLKQJNnWQ/PZ1oj4JU0qWPtrm8W r9eQW1eFJdZqpc6CC0/QXClnxvCyeM6WXQWpBkFuLbVma5cqZkyawzz7Ncc6SGxIN+ P58sG4qzvL8og== Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 19:30:04 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel test robot , Lee Jones , Linus Walleij , Bartosz Golaszewski , Mark Brown , srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com, ChiYuan Huang , wangweidong.a@awinic.com, nick.li@foursemi.com, Richard Fitzgerald , alexey.klimov@linaro.org, niranjan.hy@ti.com, shenghao-ding@ti.com, linux , Nuno =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E1?= , "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.17-5.4] mfd: si476x: Add GPIOLIB_LEGACY dependency Message-ID: References: <20251009155752.773732-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20251009155752.773732-102-sashal@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 06:03:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >On Thu, Oct 9, 2025, at 17:56, Sasha Levin wrote: >> - Why it’s needed in stable >> - The GPIO subsystem recently made legacy interfaces optional/fenced >> off, which exposed drivers still using global GPIO numbers. This >> patch is part of that follow-up hardening: it gates the si476x core >> on `GPIOLIB_LEGACY`, avoiding invalid build combinations. It is a >> pure Kconfig fix with no runtime behavior change, directly >> addressing a regression introduced by the gpiolib changes and thus a >> textbook stable backport candidate for trees that have those gpiolib >> changes. > >This is incorrect, the patch does not need to be backported because >at the moment CONFIG_GPIOLIB_LEGACY is enabled unconditionally, and >the coming patch to make it optional will not get backported. Dropped, thanks! -- Thanks, Sasha