From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore garbage in dell-wmi events
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090429131613.abed991b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F73F92.9000201@dell.com>
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:40:34 -0500
Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
> In debugging with some future machines that actually contain BIOS level
> support for dell-wmi, I've determined that the upper half of the data
> that comes back from wmi_get_event_data may sometimes contain extra
> information that isn't currently relevant when pulling scan codes out of
> the data. This causes dell-wmi to improperly respond to these events.
>
> I'm attaching a patch (Exchange would munge up the line breaks otherwise).
Can you please send along a Signed-off-by: for this patch?
Documentation/SubmittingPatches explains what it's all about.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-29 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-28 17:40 [PATCH] Ignore garbage in dell-wmi events Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 16:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 18:13 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 18:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 20:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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