linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc

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Message-Id: <20100921190816.e6ca6a72.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:08:16 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Josh Hill <joshua.hill@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...hat.com, stable@...nel.org,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting
 addition to next rc

(cc's added)

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:23:57 -0700 Josh Hill <joshua.hill@...il.com> wrote:

> please cc as i'm unsubscribed
> as reported in this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344
> and the patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e
> 
> the backlight on this laptop goes down one level whenever
> /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/status is read.
> i've been told the patch missed the .35 merge window, and is going to
> be in .36, but ubuntu is
> going to release 10.10 soon with .35 in it, and if this patch doesn't
> make it into .35 my laptop
> will be doing this for its (10.10) entire lifetime. i didn't know who
> to really contact and request this sort
> of thing so i'm doing it here.

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


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