From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:37:08 +0200 Message-ID: <201009231037.09097.trenn@suse.de> References: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:48691 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751791Ab0IWIhM (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:37:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Josh Hill , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi, I didn't know about this one. Can people please add me to CC list on hp-wmi specific bug reports (for existing and new ones), thanks. On Wednesday 22 September 2010 04:08:16 Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc's added) > The suggestion is that mainline's > 751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e ("x86 platform drivers: hp-wmi > Reorder event id processing") be backported into 2.6.35.x to fix the > post-2.6.32 regression described in > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344 Hmm, the bug is still in "open" state, there is no statement that anything is found yet fixing the issue. Could you please update the bug report if you verified and are sure the patch helps. The patch is a cleanup, has some functional change, but should do things correctly now. As long as no special case was handled by always calling: hp_wmi_get_entry_by_scancode(eventcode); even it was not a hotkey event, this is a straight forward fix and if no one else complains, you have my vote for adding this to stable kernel(s). about: > if this patch doesn't make it into .35 my laptop > will be doing this for its (10.10) entire lifetime. Isn't Ubuntu following stable 2.6.35.X kernels and you would get this with an update if it's pushed into stable kernels? I expect they do follow and there is no need to hurry? Thomas