Unable to disable GPIOTE for nRF Connect SDK 2.6.1

[Christopher]

Hi, 

Recently I upgraded to nRF Connect SDK 2.6.1 and I was required to enable the GPIOTE in order to build properly. Doing this has significantly increased (nearly doubled) the total current consumption at runtime. How can I disable this peripheral now? I am unable to do so now using the overlay file.

Old: 

&gpiote {
    status = "disabled";
};

New:

&gpiote {
    status = "okay";
};

Thank you,

[Simonr]

Hi Christopher

Susheel asked me if I could take over this case, and indeed it seems like something is drawing a lot of power on your external board. In my opinion 199µA on the older SDK is also a bit high if your application is just doing GPIOTE, so I'm guessing your application does something else as well. 

First off, to try and achieve the same power consumption on NCS v2.6.1, can you go through the migration guides for NCS v2.5.0 and v2.6.0 to make sure you've made all the necessary changes to your project in order to make it running as it should on v2.6.1?

Next, if you use Visual Studio Code and the nRF Connect extensions for development, you can use the nRF DeviceTree visual editor to see what pins and peripherals exactly are enabled in your project and check for any discrepancies between the NCS 2.4.2 and 2.6.1 versions of your project.

Best regards,

Simon