From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Read EC information on newer models Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 14:39:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20190308133944.GA22787@kroah.com> References: <20190308131426.10254-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190308131426.10254-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jiaxun Yang Cc: ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br, dvhart@infradead.org, andy@infradead.org, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: platform-driver-x86.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:14:26PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > Newer ThinkPads have a totally different EC program information DMI > table. And thermal subdriver can't work without correct EC version. > > Read from this entry if the old method failed to get EC information. > > Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang > --- > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly.