Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/5] thinkpad-acpi: fix LED blinking through timer trigger

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh@hmh.eng.br) wrote:
> > The set_blink hook code in the LED subdriver would never manage to get
> > a LED to blink, and instead it would just turn it on.  The consequence
> > of this is that the "timer" trigger would not cause the LED to blink
> > if given default parameters.
> > 
> > This problem exists since 2.6.26-rc1.
> > 
> > To fix it, switch the deferred LED work handling to use the
> > thinkpad-acpi-specific LED status (off/on/blink) directly.
> > 
> > This also makes the code easier to read, and to extend later.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> 
> This is still not upstream.

It is upstream now, commit 75bd3bf2ade9d548be0d2bde60b5ee0fdce0b127.

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