linux-kernel - Re: [ 10/18] ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:21:53 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [ 10/18] ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to
 skip DSDT scan

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 17:13 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Sorry for the late review, but this patch is actually tagged for
> stable kernels >= 3.9 ("Cc: 3.9+ <stable@...r.kernel.org>").  But it
> is probably harmless and not worth the trouble of reverting them from
> 3.0 and 3.4.

I don't think it does any good without the preceding fix (commit
2fa97feb4406c546b52e35b6b6c50cb8f63425d2) which unfortunately requires
3.9.  I don't know whether it will make things any worse.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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