Re: Patch "gpiolib: of: add polarity quirk for TSC2005" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

Re: Patch "gpiolib: of: add polarity quirk for TSC2005" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 10:58:55AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     gpiolib: of: add polarity quirk for TSC2005
> 
> to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      gpiolib-of-add-polarity-quirk-for-tsc2005.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.

Sasha, you are picking up a fix for an issue that was there for 7
years (since 2017), that nobody reported, for a device that there
probably 1 or 2 users in the world attempt to boot on mainline kernel.
For this you are forklifting bunch of other changes as dependencies.

I questioned myself when I was sending this change to mainline if it was
even worth it, and I am very sure the risks far outweigh the benefits(?)
of having this in stable.

The same goes for other cherry-picks to other stable branches.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry