linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 024/108] ARM: dts: imx25-pinfunc: Fix gpio function name for pads GPIO

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:59:21 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 024/108] ARM: dts: imx25-pinfunc: Fix gpio
 function name for pads GPIO_[A-F]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:35:50PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 03:36:36PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit e0cdd26af8eb9001689a4cde4f72c61c1c4b06be ]
>>
>> The pinfunc definitions used GPIO_A as function instead of GPIO_1_0 as
>> done for all the other pins with GPIO functionality. Fix for consistency.
>>
>> There are no mainline users that needs adaption.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>I'm not convinced it's a good idea to take this patch for stable.
>in-tree users are unaffected and the only effect this can have on
>out-of-tree users is to break them. So the gain of having this is not
>positive.
>
>Am I missing something?

Hm, if those definitions don't have an in-tree users, why are they still
around to begin with?

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha