From: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.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: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:37:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D759675.8020600@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307161805.GB9088@kroah.com>
On 03/08/2011 12:18 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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 thought we will have stable release on lastest kernel only[1]. Since the .38 is
going to release soon. It seems I do not have much time for .37 stable release.
I hope I do not miss something.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/2/388
>
>> 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,
Sorry about the confusing. The same patch for upstream is posted[2] but not merged
yet. It looks like a now-or-never situation to me. That's why I post and write the
concerns in comment.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/23/171
>
> greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 2:37 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 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-03-08 2:37 ` Ike Panhc [this message]
2011-03-08 5:07 ` Greg KH
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