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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 08:57:10PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks, I'll drop it from all stable queues and push out some new
-rc2 releases.

greg k-h