Re: acerhdf: stilll fighting between kernel and BIOS?

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Adrian von Bidder kirjoitti:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 10.58:54 Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Adrian von Bidder
>>
>> <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote:
>>> Heyho!
>>>
>>> On Sunday 22 November 2009 22.27:50 Peter Feuerer wrote:
>>>> issues with AOA 150 netbooks should be solved with current 2.6.32-git
>>>>  tree. You can also try to use latest acerhdf of http://piie.net
>>> Seems to work fine.  That was the fix I thought was already included in
>>> 2.6.31.
>> Is that commit ded0cdfc6a7673916b0878c32fa8ba566b4f8cdb ("acerhdf: fix
>> fan control for AOA150 model")? Should it go to -stable?
> 
> Sorry for not answering sooner.
> 
> I don't really have time to recompile / test more at this time; in any case, 
> I think it's just a minor annoyance and not what I'd feed into a "fixes 
> only" tree.  (I'm not involved in kernel development in any way, but I 
> thought that the stable tree should be quite limited in what goes in?)

Your call. The rules of stable are pretty simple: (1) the patch needs to 
fix a _real_ problem and (2) it needs to be rather small. AFAICT, both 
apply here.

			Pekka