31 May
2018
31 May
'18
11:55 a.m.
On 5/31/18 6:53 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
i checked initially 4.9 with latest patches and 4.14 and reverted this line to get back to the old behaviour but a which view in the current 4.17 tree shows that the same patch has been included in 4.17. it was introduced in the kernel mainline on 12.feb 2018 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/dr...
I believe that this patch should not be applied to *any* stable kernel.
It completely breaks legacy GPIO numbering, and it does so intentionally. That may be okay for future kernels, but IMHO it's wrong for older kernels.
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