From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Artem X <artem.brz@gmail.com>,
Rene Bolldorf <xsecute@googlemail.com>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-3.1.y] ideapad: Check if acpi already handle backlight power to avoid a page fault
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:40:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120111164028.GC1891@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120111161110.GC25593@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
>> On 01/11/2012 08:42 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>> From: René Bollford <xsecute@googlemail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:56:42 +0200
>>>
>>> commit d4afc7754a60b885b63ef23fd194984e2d53a4e6 upstream.
>>>
>>> This patch avoid a page fault in the ideapad-laptop extras when
>>> turning the backlight power on or off.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rene Bolldorf <xsecute@googlemail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>>> Tested-by: Artem X <artem.brz@gmail.com>
[...]
> <formletter>
>
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> for how to do this properly.
>
> </formletter>
Well, what did I do wrong this time?
- The patch is obviously correct and tested.
- It is a two-liner, plus context.
- It fixes exactly one thing.
- The bug bothers people, and I gave links to reports.
- It is an oops (a null pointer dereference).
- No unrelated "trivial" fixes in there.
- Follows SubmittingPatches rules, as far as I know.
- Patch was produced by cherry-picking the commit named above from
Linus's tree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-01-11 0:42 ` [PATCH linux-3.1.y] ideapad: Check if acpi already handle backlight power to avoid a page fault Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-11 0:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-11 11:47 ` Ike Panhc
2012-01-11 16:11 ` Greg KH
2012-01-11 16:40 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-01-11 17:05 ` Greg KH
2012-01-11 18:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-01-12 22:59 ` Greg KH
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