linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:22:44 +0400
From:	Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@...il.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	James Hogan <james@...anarts.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Jörg Otte <jrg.otte@...il.com>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...rom.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Steven Newbury <steve@...wbury.org.uk>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 21:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, July 25, 2013 08:14:08 PM James Hogan wrote:
> > On 25 July 2013 14:00, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and efaa14c?
> > >> >
> > >> > Yes, but let's wait a while. Not because I think we'll fix the problem
> > >> > (hey, miracles might happen), but because I think it would be useful
> > >> > to couple the reverts with information about the particular machines
> > >> > that broke (and the people who reported it). So that when we
> > >> > inevitably try again, we can perhaps get some testing effort with
> > >> > those machines/people.
> > >> >
> > >> > It doesn't seem to be a show-stopped for a large number of people, so
> > >> > there's no huge hurry. I'd suggest doing the revert just in time for
> > >> > rc3, but waiting until then to gather info about people who see
> > >> > breakage.
> > >> >
> > >> > Sound like a plan?
> > >>
> > >> Yes, it does.
> > >
> > > OK, time to revert I guess.
> > >
> > > James, Kamal, Steven, Jörg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended patch
> > > fixes the backlight for you.
> > 
> > Works for me
> 
> Great!
> 
> James, Kamal, Jörg, thanks for confirmations.  I'll tentatively put the revert
> into linux-next in a while.
> 
> Other people who experienced problems with backlight in 3.11-rc2, please let me
> know whether or not the revert works for you too if you can.
> 
> Rafael
> 
> 

Rafael, feel free to CC me in messages with backlight ;) I want to test
its)
-- 
Igor Gnatenko
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
Linux 3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64

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