From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45049 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932346AbcBQGcc (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:32:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:32:32 -0800 From: Greg KH To: John Dahlstrom Cc: Josh Boyer , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ideapad-laptop: add Lenovo ideapad Y700 Touch-15ISK and Lenovo ideapad Y700-15ISK to no_hw_rfkill DMI list Message-ID: <20160217063232.GA13048@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:21:44PM -0600, John Dahlstrom wrote: > Some Lenovo ideapad models lack a physical rfkill switch. > Without this patch, rfkill reports a hard block via the ideapad-laptop > kernel module and wireless networking fails on affected models. > With this patch, Wi-Fi works as expected. > > Josh Boyer already posted a patch for the Lenovo ideapad Y700-17ISK. > This patch applies the same fix for the Lenovo ideapad Y700 Touch-15ISK > and Lenovo ideapad Y700-15ISK. > > While tested with Linux kernel 4.4.1, this patch also applies to > kernels 3.18.27, 4.1.18, 4.3.5, and 4.5-rc4. > > Related > BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286293 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.