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

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
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> ...
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> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 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