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:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:59:26 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.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

Hi,

On 11-06-19 21:15, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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.

Weird. I will resend the patch rebased on top of 5.2-rc4.

Regards,

Hans