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Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 09:42:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
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        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>,
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        Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <marcelo.jimenez@gmail.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.16 0018/1017] Revert "gpio: Revert regression in
 sysfs-gpio (gpiolib.c)"
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 11:28:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > [ Upstream commit 56e337f2cf1326323844927a04e9dbce9a244835 ]
> > 
> > This reverts commit fc328a7d1fcce263db0b046917a66f3aa6e68719.
> > 
> > This commit - while attempting to fix a regression - has caused a number
> > of other problems. As the fallout from it is more significant than the
> > initial problem itself, revert it for now before we find a correct
> > solution.
> 
> The patch this reverts is queued as 15/ in the series. Rather than
> applying broken patch and then reverting, it would be better to drop
> both, right?

No, this way we don't accidentally add the patch back when the scripts
go "hey, you forgot this old commit!"

thanks,

greg k-h