linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses

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Message-ID: <20141205204122.GA11772@amd>
Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:41:22 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
	mjg59@...f.ucam.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses

On Fri 2014-12-05 21:31:34, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2014 14:34:32 Darren Hart wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:16:20AM +0100, Gabriele Mazzotta 
> wrote:
> > > Currently dell-wmi reports keypresses for WMI events that
> > > are notifications of changes performed by the BIOS.
> > > This patch series make sure that no keypresses are sent for
> > > those events so that nothing is done from userspace.
> > > 
> > > Gabriele Mazzotta (3):
> > >   dell-wmi: Use appropriate keycode for radio state changes
> > >   dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses for radio state changes
> > 
> > Merged into one patch, queued.
> > 
> > >   dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses on keybord illumination
> > >   change
> > 
> > Queued.
> > 
> > Thanks Gabriele.
> 
> Darren, what do you think about sending patch into stable kernel?

I'd suggest against that. -stable is for "serious" bugs, and we don't
want to change this kind of behaviour in -stable kernel.

								Pavel
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