From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] [stable-37] ideapad: read brightness setting when have brightness key notify
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:18:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110307161805.GB9088@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299494125-9655-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 06:35:25PM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25922
>
> On ideapad Y530, the brightness key notify will be blocked if the last notify
> is not responsed by getting the brightness value. Read value when we get the
> notify shall fix the problem and will not have any difference on other ideapads.
>
> This patch is made against 2.6.37.y and this bug impacts kernel after 2.6.37.
>
> The equivalent-fix patch is not in upstream yet. Since the policy of stable tree
> is changed and .38 kernel is going to finalize.
What "policy of the stable tree is changed"? Huh?
> I think to post this patch for stable kernel now should be a good
> idea.
Have you not read the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt and seen
that this is totally and completly not allowed? Why is it suddenly not
true?
confused,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 10:35 [PATCH] [stable-37] ideapad: read brightness setting when have brightness key notify Ike Panhc
2011-03-07 16:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-08 2:37 ` [stable] " Ike Panhc
2011-03-08 5:07 ` Greg KH
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