Re: [PATCH] gpio: sysfs: fix inverted pointer logic

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:52 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:52:48AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
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> ...
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> > Fixes: d83cee3d2bb1 ("gpio: protect the pointer to gpio_chip in gpio_device with SRCU")
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> I'm wondering if instead tons of fixes you can just fold the patches and rebase your tree.
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> Yes, we still have time to let it soak in Linux Next, so Torvalds won't complain.
> It will be much less burden to anybody who wants to backport this nice work.
>

No, I don't think so. Rebasing is reserved for really special cases
when nothing else can be done. Fixes like that should be expected for
a big rework like this. This is honestly a strange idea.

And I don't think anyone should backport this work. It's simply way
too big and touches too many places.

Bart