From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore garbage in dell-wmi events Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:16:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20090429131613.abed991b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <49F73F92.9000201@dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58910 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753429AbZD2URG (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:17:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49F73F92.9000201@dell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mario Limonciello Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:40:34 -0500 Mario Limonciello 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.