Hu Yama & friends, thanks for your patch! On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:49 PM Yama Modo <zero19850401@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Linus Walleij, > > I want to backport commit ff2b13592299 "gpio: make the gpiochip a real > device" to linux 4.4.y. Could you please review the following patch? I > will improve this later if something need to take care. Thanks! Super cool, and I bet you have a good reason for wanting the new GPIO framework on elder kernels, like being able to create drivers and userspace that can be used on newer kernels seamlessly. But I think you are confusing Greg, because the stable kernel is by definition intended for fixing instabilities, I would say make it publicly available for people who want it and need it, but unless it is fixing an instability for users, it will not be stable kernel material. Yours, Linus Walleij
