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From: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Don't oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:57:51 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170927072750.GK32089@marvin.atrad.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170927065655.GA30358@fury>

Hi Darren

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:56:55PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:00:59PM +0300, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > My Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6120 doesn't have the FUJ02E3 device,
> > but it does have FUJ02B1. That means we do register the backlight
> > device (and it even seems to work), but the code will oops as soon
> > as we try to set the backlight brightness because it's trying to
> > call call_fext_func() with a NULL device. Let's just skip those
> > function calls when the FUJ02E3 device is not present.
> > 
> > Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@just42.net>
> > Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Thanks for all the discussion on this patch. While there are a couple approaches
> we can take, it is clear further clean up and refactoring is in order. To fix
> the Ooops now, I will apply this patch to fixes and Cc Stable.

Thanks Darren.

jonathan

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 20:00 [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Don't oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt Ville Syrjala
2017-09-19  4:06 ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-19  4:21   ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-19  4:42     ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-19  8:20       ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-19 13:25   ` Ville Syrjälä
2018-02-10 21:33   ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-23  0:00 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-23  2:03   ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-23  9:08   ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-25 12:14     ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-09-25 13:16       ` Jonathan Woithe
2017-09-26  4:49   ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-26  5:32     ` Jonathan Woithe
     [not found]     ` <20171018151058.GL10981@intel.com>
2017-10-20 17:29       ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-10-25  4:51       ` Michał Kępień
2017-10-25 10:05         ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-10-29 22:57         ` Jonathan Woithe
2018-02-11 21:33           ` Michał Kępień
2017-09-27  6:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27  7:27   ` Jonathan Woithe [this message]

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