From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Hill <joshua.hill@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
alan@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:08:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimOVY+iOOMKhwFfX5Wcw1y_PcvoCCfEcjoPmj3J@mail.gmail.com>
(cc's added)
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:23:57 -0700 Josh Hill <joshua.hill@gmail.com> wrote:
> please cc as i'm unsubscribed
> as reported in this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344
> and the patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e
>
> the backlight on this laptop goes down one level whenever
> /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/status is read.
> i've been told the patch missed the .35 merge window, and is going to
> be in .36, but ubuntu is
> going to release 10.10 soon with .35 in it, and if this patch doesn't
> make it into .35 my laptop
> will be doing this for its (10.10) entire lifetime. i didn't know who
> to really contact and request this sort
> of thing so i'm doing it here.
The suggestion is that mainline's
751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e ("x86 platform drivers: hp-wmi
Reorder event id processing") be backported into 2.6.35.x to fix the
post-2.6.32 regression described in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-21 17:23 [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc Josh Hill
2010-09-22 2:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-09-23 8:37 ` Thomas Renninger
2010-09-23 9:25 ` Stefan Bader
2010-09-23 18:00 ` [stable] " Greg KH
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