linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio/davinci: add interrupt support for GPIOs 16-31

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:32:11 +0530
From:	Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:	Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@...com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
CC:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio/davinci: add interrupt support for GPIOs 16-31

On Thursday 16 July 2015 11:11 PM, Vitaly Andrianov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/16/2015 05:04 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 July 2015 07:31 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@...com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interrupts for GPIOs 16 through 31 are enabled by bit 1 in the
>>>> "binten" register (offset 8). Previous versions of GPIO only
>>>> used bit 0, which enables GPIO 0-15 interrupts.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Reece Pollack <x0183204@...com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Andrianov <vitalya@...com>
>>>
>>> Sekhar/Kevin: OK with this? We don't have a maintainer
>>> listed for davinci GPIO so I assume it's you guys...
>>
>> Hi Linus, I had reviewed this patch and there was a v2 send based on my
>> comments on July 03.
>>
>>> Should this be tagged for stable?
>>
>> Not sure about that. It affects Keystone devices. Vitaly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sekhar
>>
> We used this patch for a long time. So, I guess it is stable.

You misunderstood. Should this patch be marked for backporting to older
kernels because it fixes a critical issue on devices otherwise working
in that kernel? See Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Thanks,
Sekhar
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