From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ike Panhc Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] [stable-37] ideapad: read brightness setting when have brightness key notify Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:37:41 +0800 Message-ID: <4D759675.8020600@canonical.com> References: <1299494125-9655-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> <20110307161805.GB9088@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:42081 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753604Ab1CHChx (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2011 21:37:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110307161805.GB9088@kroah.com> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: stable@kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org On 03/08/2011 12:18 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 06:35:25PM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote: >> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25922 >> >> On ideapad Y530, the brightness key notify will be blocked if the last notify >> is not responsed by getting the brightness value. Read value when we get the >> notify shall fix the problem and will not have any difference on other ideapads. >> >> This patch is made against 2.6.37.y and this bug impacts kernel after 2.6.37. >> >> The equivalent-fix patch is not in upstream yet. Since the policy of stable tree >> is changed and .38 kernel is going to finalize. > > What "policy of the stable tree is changed"? Huh? I thought we will have stable release on lastest kernel only[1]. Since the .38 is going to release soon. It seems I do not have much time for .37 stable release. I hope I do not miss something. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/2/388 > >> I think to post this patch for stable kernel now should be a good >> idea. > > Have you not read the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt and seen > that this is totally and completly not allowed? Why is it suddenly not > true? > > confused, Sorry about the confusing. The same patch for upstream is posted[2] but not merged yet. It looks like a now-or-never situation to me. That's why I post and write the concerns in comment. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/23/171 > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html