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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 12:02:30 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
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Subject: Re: platform/x86: dell-laptop: Allocate buffer on heap rather than
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:10:46PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> commit 9862b43624 upstream
> 
> There has been a race condition identified with initialization of the dell-laptop
> driver due to changes in 4.15.  This commit has been shown to resolve the race
> condition.
> 
> I'd like to see this brought back to 4.15 stable.  It doesn't apply to anything earlier.

It doesn't apply cleanly to 4.15.y, it has 2 unresolved hunks.  Can you
provide a backported version so that it can be applied?

thanks,

greg k-h