Re: x60 backlight Re: [discuss] 2.6.19-rc1: known regressions (v2)

Adrian Bunk
2006-10-08T17:38:15Z

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:12:54AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> On Sat 07-10-06 23:46:21, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc1 compared to 2.6.18
> > that are not yet fixed Linus' tree.
> >
> > If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> > of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> > of you was declared guilty for a breakage or I'm considering you in any
> > other way possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
> >
> > Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
> ...
> > Subject : T60 stops triggering any ACPI events
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/425
> > Submitter : "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
> > Status : unknown
> >
> >
> > Subject : thinkpad x60: brightness no longer adjustable in 2.6.18-git
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/2/300
> > Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Status : unknown, related to the issue above?
>
> Strange, problem went away after reboot. I guess I'll write it off as
> an acpi glitch... there's definitely something strange going on with
> backlight around s2ram: during normal operation, backlight changes are
> fast. After s2ram, backlight change from keyboard takes 300msec or so.

Is this a regression compared to 2.6.18 or an older issue?

If it's a regression can you bisect?

TIA
Adrian

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