linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

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Message-ID: <51EC4D77.2010502@mni.thm.de>
Date:	Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:07:03 +0200
From:	Tobias Klausmann <tobias.johannes.klausmann@....thm.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

On 21.07.2013 21:53, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there.
...
>
>   (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on
> certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be
> done outside the merge window, I ended up pulling it anyway. But I'd
> *really* like to have people test this thing particularly on laptops
> with intel-based graphics. It should only matter (and hopefully
> improve things) for the newer ones with BIOSes designed for Windows 8,
> but hey, the more testing, the better. Backlight handling has been
> painful before, so I'm mentioning this explicitly.
>

This pach finally fixes my backlight control!

Thanks!
Tobias Klausmann
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