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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: Revert f5a26acf0162 ("pinctrl: intel: Initialize GPIO properly
 when used through irqchip") from stable trees
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:24:27PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:53:02PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It seems that commit f5a26acf0162 ("pinctrl: intel: Initialize GPIO
> > properly when used through irqchip") can cause problems on some Skylake
> > systems with Sunrisepoint PCH-H. Namely on certain systems it may turn
> > the backlight PWM pin from native mode to GPIO which makes the screen
> > blank during boot.
> > 
> > There is more information here:
> > 
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543769
> > 
> > The actual reason is that GPIO numbering used in BIOS is using "Windows"
> > numbers meaning that they don't match the hardware 1:1 and because of
> > this a wrong pin (backlight PWM) is picked and switched to GPIO mode.
> > 
> > There is a proper fix for this but since it has quite many dependencies
> > on commits that cannot be considered stable material, I suggest we
> > revert commit f5a26acf0162 from stable trees 4.9, 4.14 and 4.15 to
> > prevent the backlight issue.
> 
> What is the "proper fix"?  Is it in Linus's tree yet?

This patch

  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/892813/

However, it is not yet in Linus' tree.