linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=McPP6obWpnd7Y7duJDC=NLAOE7bjFN-iytDJ524nDr9mA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:49:05 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: William Breathitt Gray <wbg@...nel.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>, Michael Walle <mwalle@...nel.org>, 
	Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@...anix.com>, 
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:21:38AM -0400, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:51:46 +0200, William Breathitt Gray
> > <wbg@...nel.org> said:
>
> ...
>
> > > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # ae495810cffe: gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter
>
> > Turns out, this requires commit ae495810cffe ("gpio: regmap: add the
> > .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter") so I cannot queue it for
> > v6.18. What do you want me to do? Send the first two ones upstream and apply
> > this for v6.19?
>
> Why can't this be pulled from some IB/IT as part of the fix?
>

These kinds of things should be signalled before applying the patches
that should go to an immutable branch. I would now have to rebase the
my for-next branch. Also: the commit in question brings in a new
feature, not a fix.

Bartosz