On Wednesday 26 April 2017 15:40:49 Darren Hart wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 05:50:57PM -0400, Arcadiy Ivanov wrote: > > On 2017-04-25 09:49, mario.limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.ro...@gmail.com] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 8:41 AM > > > > To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevche...@gmail.com> > > > > Cc: Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org>; Darren Hart > > > > <dvh...@infradead.org>; Andy Shevchenko <a...@infradead.org>; Arcadiy > > > > Ivanov > > > > <arca...@ivanov.biz>; Limonciello, Mario <mario_limoncie...@dell.com>; > > > > Platform Driver <platform-driver-...@vger.kernel.org>; linux- > > > > ker...@vger.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.ro...@gmail.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.ro...@gmail.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,
I'm fine with it, if Greg or stable maintainers approve this change. > > I second that. Thanks! > > > > In order for this to go back to stable, we will need to include the list of > dependencies per stable-kernel-rules.txt. This can be done after it is merged, > but if you can provide the set of Cc: stable lines needed, we can look at > getting this into testing now so no further action will be required. > > ... > > Upon closer inspection, this does fail the 100 lines including context stable > rule by an additional 55 lines. This is a process issue I've been thinking > about > for a while and trying to find the best way to express this problem and what a > viable solution might look like. As it stands, fixes such as these are > effectively limited to current and future kernel versions. I do think there > is a > need for vendors to be able to update their drivers upstream to work with > current > hardware without requiring a bleeding edge kernel. Perhaps "leaf node drivers" > should have a looser set of stable rules, but that is not currently the way > the > upstream stable kernel rules work (at least as far as I understand them). > > +Greg KH who has the ultimate say on this. Greg, have I misrepresented > anything > here? > -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
