From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Krishna Chomal <krishna.chomal108@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com,
aros@gmx.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please backport e8c597368b85 (platform/x86: hp-wmi: Ignore backlight and FnLock events) to 7.0.y and LTS
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 07:48:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026051522-calculus-halt-1506@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <agaiW9AmqFwsT7pZ@archlinux>
On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 10:16:40AM +0530, Krishna Chomal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to request a backport of commit e8c597368b85 [1] to Linux
> 7.0.y, and LTS versions.
>
> On new HP OmniBook 7 (Panther Lake) hardware, the keyboard backlight
> and FnLock keys are handled by firmware but still trigger WMI events.
> This results in "Unknown key code" warnings spamming dmesg [2].
>
> The mainline commit e8c597368b85 ("platform/x86: hp-wmi: Ignore backlight
> and FnLock events") silences these warnings by adding the key codes to
> the keymap with KE_IGNORE.
>
> The patch was merged in v7.1-rc1 but missed the stable tag during
> initial submission.
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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2026-05-15 4:46 Please backport e8c597368b85 (platform/x86: hp-wmi: Ignore backlight and FnLock events) to 7.0.y and LTS Krishna Chomal
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