From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753550Ab0IWJ0H (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:26:07 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:57748 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751390Ab0IWJ0F (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:26:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4C9B1D22.20504@canonical.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:25:54 +0200 From: Stefan Bader User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Renninger CC: Andrew Morton , Josh Hill , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org, 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 References: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <201009231037.09097.trenn@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <201009231037.09097.trenn@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/23/2010 10:37 AM, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't know about this one. > Can people please add me to CC list on hp-wmi specific bug > reports (for existing and new ones), thanks. > > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 04:08:16 Andrew Morton wrote: >> (cc's added) >> 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 > Hmm, the bug is still in "open" state, there is no statement that anything > is found yet fixing the issue. > > Could you please update the bug report if you verified and are sure > the patch helps. > > The patch is a cleanup, has some functional change, but should > do things correctly now. As long as no special case was handled > by always calling: > hp_wmi_get_entry_by_scancode(eventcode); > even it was not a hotkey event, this is a straight forward fix and > if no one else complains, you have my vote for adding this to > stable kernel(s). > > about: >> if this patch doesn't make it into .35 my laptop >> will be doing this for its (10.10) entire lifetime. > Isn't Ubuntu following stable 2.6.35.X kernels and you would get this with > an update if it's pushed into stable kernels? > I expect they do follow and there is no need to hurry? > Yes, we do follow 2.6.35.y updates at least for a few months after release. So there should be no particular need to hurry. At least if it gets to Greg before he stops caring about .35. -Stefan > Thomas > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html