linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Adds support for keyboard backlight timeout AC settings

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:49:31 +0000
From:   <Mario.Limonciello@...l.com>
To:     <pali.rohar@...il.com>, <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
CC:     <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        <andy@...radead.org>, <arcadiy@...nov.biz>,
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Adds support for keyboard backlight timeout
 AC settings

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@...il.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 8:41 AM
> To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>; Darren Hart
> <dvhart@...radead.org>; Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>; Arcadiy Ivanov
> <arcadiy@...nov.biz>; Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>;
> Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Adds support for keyboard backlight timeout AC
> settings
> 
> On Tuesday 25 April 2017 16:32:36 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 25 April 2017 15:36:56 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> This patch misses few others that were applied to our testing / for-next.
> > >
> > > Ah... sorry for that :-( And I was in impression that there were fixes
> > > for that code which use mutexes... Now I know why I have not seen them!
> > >
> > >> I have applied it to testing with corrected conflict (easy to fix),
> > >> though check if everything still as supposed to be.
> > >
> > > Can you send a link to your fix?
> >
> > Sure, here it is:
> > http://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-
> x86.git/commit/bcf7d8a30e2888f78a19778a16d3dd8c10b4b0ad
> 
> It is OK.
> 

Pali,

Considering this is negatively affecting folks on stable kernel releases too
when using this newer HW, would you consider to send to @stable too?

Thanks,