From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753626Ab0IVCIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:08:38 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38514 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752517Ab0IVCIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:08:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:08:16 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Josh Hill Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org, Thomas Renninger , Matthew Garrett , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc Message-Id: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (cc's added) On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:23:57 -0700 Josh Hill 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