Re: [4/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

Richard Purdie
2007-03-05T12:25:26Z

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 02:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Subject : LCD is dimmed (ibm-acpi related)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/25/206
> Submitter : Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
> Caused-By : Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> commit 994efacdf9a087b52f71e620b58dfa526b0cf928
> Handled-By : Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
> Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> Status : patches are being discussed

The confirmed fix is in the ACPI test branch for this.

> Subject : no backlight on radeon
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/19/1
> Submitter : Yaroslav Halchenko <kernel@onerussian.com>
> Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Caused-By : James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
> commit e0e34ef7f02915cfe50e501e9f32c24217177a96
> Handled-By : Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> Status : problem is being discussed
>
>
> Subject : nvidiafb broken
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/24/36
> Submitter : Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Caused-By : Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> commit 599a52d12629394236d785615808845823875868
> Handled-By : Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/26/43
> Status : patch available

The confirmed fixes for both of these are in the backlight tree. I was
waiting for any further feedback on the first issue above but will send
them to Linus now.

Cheers,

Richard