Re: Patch "gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

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On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 at 02:07, Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
>     gpiolib: use a mutex to protect the list of GPIO devices
>

Please drop this, not only isn't it stable material but was also
reverted after it turned out there are places in linux where old code
uses legacy API from atomic context triggering a GPIO device lookup
and taking the sleeping lock.

Bart




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