From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Don't oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:56:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170927065655.GA30358@fury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170918200059.16279-1-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:00:59PM +0300, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
>
> My Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6120 doesn't have the FUJ02E3 device,
> but it does have FUJ02B1. That means we do register the backlight
> device (and it even seems to work), but the code will oops as soon
> as we try to set the backlight brightness because it's trying to
> call call_fext_func() with a NULL device. Let's just skip those
> function calls when the FUJ02E3 device is not present.
>
> Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>
> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Thanks for all the discussion on this patch. While there are a couple approaches
we can take, it is clear further clean up and refactoring is in order. To fix
the Ooops now, I will apply this patch to fixes and Cc Stable.
Thanks,
--
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-27 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-18 20:00 [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Don't oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt Ville Syrjala
2017-09-19 4:06 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-19 4:21 ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-19 4:42 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-19 8:20 ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-19 13:25 ` Ville Syrjälä
2018-02-10 21:33 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-23 0:00 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-23 2:03 ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-23 9:08 ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-25 12:14 ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-09-25 13:16 ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-26 4:49 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-26 5:32 ` Jonathan Woithe
[not found] ` <20171018151058.GL10981@intel.com>
2017-10-20 17:29 ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-10-25 4:51 ` Michał Kępień
2017-10-25 10:05 ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-10-29 22:57 ` Jonathan Woithe
2018-02-11 21:33 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-27 6:56 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2017-09-27 7:27 ` Jonathan Woithe
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