linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Only Tell EC the OS will handle display hotkeys from asus_nb

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:15:40 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
        acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...lessm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Only Tell EC the OS will handle
 display hotkeys from asus_nb_wmi

On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:15 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 28-05-19 15:37, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 24-05-19 18:43, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:28 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Commit 78f3ac76d9e5 ("platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will
> >>> handle the display off hotkey") causes the backlight to be permanently off
> >>> on various EeePC laptop models using the eeepc-wmi driver (Asus EeePC
> >>> 1015BX, Asus EeePC 1025C).
> >>>
> >>> The asus_wmi_set_devstate(ASUS_WMI_DEVID_BACKLIGHT, 2, NULL) call added
> >>> by that commit is made conditional in this commit and only enabled in
> >>> the quirk_entry structs in the asus-nb-wmi driver fixing the broken
> >>> display / backlight on various EeePC laptop models.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hmm... doesn't apply.
> >
> > That is likely because your review-andy branch contain a whole-bunch
> > of asus-wmi patches.
> >
> > Since this is a patch fixing a regression this should go to the fixes
> > branch. As the other patches so far are only in your review-andy branch
> > it is probably best to merge this patch to for-next + fixes first and
> > then rebase the set you have in review-andy on top, so that this can go
> > to fixes without getting a merge conflict when the rest of the patches
> > show up...
>
> Ping? This is a 5.x regression fix, as such it would be really good to
> get this into 5.2 and then cherry-picked into 5.y.z.
>

It doesn't apply to our fixes branch.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko