From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable tree request - [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Correct thermal sensor allocation
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 09:53:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJJPFfpsiMDhHBR2@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea996e9f-3727-fdb9-3c04-53898fa7655c@lenovo.com>
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 02:46:18PM -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:
> Hi maintainer,
>
> I'm fairly new to contributing to the kernel and didn't know about the
> stable tree procedure so missed setting the CC:stable@vger.kernel.org in
> my patch submission; I'm following option 2 on the stable-kernel-rules
> guide.
>
> Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Correct thermal sensor
> allocation
>
> Upstream Commit ID: 6759e18e5cd8745a5dfc5726e4a3db5281ec1639
>
> Reason: Some EC registers on Thinkpad machines were being incorrectly
> used as temperature sensors. One in particular was fooling thermald into
> thinking the system was hot when it wasn't, and keeping fans ramped up
> unnecessarily.
>
> I've been requested by some distro's to get this fix into the stable
> tree to make it easier for them to then pull into their releases.
> If it's possible to add this to 5.11 and maybe 5.10 that would be
> appreciated.
>
> Please let me know if you need anything or have any questions
Looks good, now queued up everywhere, thanks.
greg k-h
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2021-04-30 18:46 stable tree request - [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Correct thermal sensor allocation Mark Pearson
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