Re: [PATCH 6.13 000/138] 6.13.5-rc1 review

Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-24T19:57:22Z

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 at 20:52, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 03:33:50PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.13.5 release.
> > There are 138 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
>
> This and 6.12 are broken on several platforms by "gpiolib: check the
> return value of gpio_chip::get_direction()", as reported upstream
> several drivers break the expectations that this commit has.
> 96fa9ec477ff60bed87e1441fd43e003179f3253 "gpiolib: don't bail out if
> get_direction() fails in gpiochip_add_data()" was merged upstream which
> makes this non-fatal, but it's probably as well to just not backport
> this to stable at all.

Agreed, this can be dropped. It never worked before so it's not a
regression fix.

Bartosz