Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-08-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, August 04, 2013 09:33:43 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2013, 14:40:58 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Friday, July 26, 2013 02:09:08 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2013, 15:00:26 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 20

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2013, 14:40:58 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Friday, July 26, 2013 02:09:08 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2013, 15:00:26 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, July 27, 2013 08:34:13 AM Kalle Valo wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > > > James, Kamal, Steven, Jörg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended > > patch > > fixes the backlight for you. > > I did three suspend-resume cycles and didn't notice anything wrong so > this patch

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-26 Thread Kalle Valo
"Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > James, Kamal, Steven, Jörg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended patch > fixes the backlight for you. I did three suspend-resume cycles and didn't notice anything wrong so this patch fixes the issue for me. I'll continue testing and will report if I spot any

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, July 26, 2013 02:09:08 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2013, 15:00:26 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2013, 15:00:26 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a p

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-26 Thread Igor Gnatenko
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 21:47 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, July 25, 2013 08:14:08 PM James Hogan wrote: > > On 25 July 2013 14:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-26 Thread Steven Newbury
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Joerg Platte
On 25.07.2013 21:47, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Other people who experienced problems with backlight in 3.11-rc2, please let me know whether or not the revert works for you too if you can. Before reverting the patch /sys/class/backlight was empty and backlight brightness was set to max, now it

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 08:14:08 PM James Hogan wrote: > On 25 July 2013 14:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki w

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread James Hogan
On 25 July 2013 14:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > > >> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request r

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Jörg Otte
2013/7/25 Jörg Otte : > 2013/7/25 Rafael J. Wysocki : >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> > > >>> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 16:46 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:43:17AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM L

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Jörg Otte
2013/7/25 Rafael J. Wysocki : > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > > >> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a an

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:43:17AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Ra

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 15:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert)

2013-07-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and > > > efaa14c? > > > > Yes, but

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Well, there seems to be a number of people who'll be equally unhappy if I > don't > do that. Unfortunately for you, things work for them without that patch. So I think we have to revert the behavior back, but I wonder if we could ke

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 08:43:00 PM * SAMÍ * wrote: > Hi, > > it seems a lot of people are complaining about the backlight pull > request of RC2. > > This is to tell you how it saved my life: > - Changing brightness from Fn keys does work > - Writing to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/b

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:55:32 PM Igor Gnatenko wrote: > Rafael, I think we shall create bug report with this problems. Doesn't > works sysfs Intel backlight. Yes, it looks like that is the source of the problems that people have after the change in question. Thanks, Rafael > On Jul 24, 2

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

2013-07-24 Thread * SAMÍ *
Hi, it seems a lot of people are complaining about the backlight pull request of RC2. This is to tell you how it saved my life: - Changing brightness from Fn keys does work - Writing to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness does work - Changing brightness from gnome brightness settin

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:19:10 AM Igor Gnatenko wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 07:49 +0100, James Hogan wrote: > > On 24 July 2013 01:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > I'd like to collect some information on the systems having problems with > > > those > > > two commits (to see if they are

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-24 Thread Jörg Otte
2013/7/24 Rafael J. Wysocki : > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:46:29 AM Kamal Mostafa wrote: >> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> > > > >> > >

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-24 Thread Igor Gnatenko
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 07:49 +0100, James Hogan wrote: > On 24 July 2013 01:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I'd like to collect some information on the systems having problems with > > those > > two commits (to see if they are similar somehow). > > > > It seems that one common symptom is that bri

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 07:49 +0100, James Hogan wrote: > On 24 July 2013 01:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I'd like to collect some information on the systems having problems with > > those > > two commits (to see if they are similar somehow). > > > > It seems that one common symptom is that br

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-23 Thread James Hogan
On 24 July 2013 01:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > I'd like to collect some information on the systems having problems with those > two commits (to see if they are similar somehow). > > It seems that one common symptom is that brightness cannot be controlled > through function keys. Is that correc

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Kalle Valo
"Rafael J. Wysocki" writes: > Well, please try to revert commits efaa14c and 8c5bd7a (in this order) and see > if that helps. On 3.11-rc2-wl (from wireless-testing.git) my Thinkpad X230 display went really dark every time during resume and I had to blindly write to sysfs to be able to see anythi

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Newbury
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 02:05 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:46:29 AM Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Dave Chinner
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 05:06:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:25:17AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > I'll just point out that it can make the whole thing worse, too. > > For example, for ext3/4, the tmpfile being created has to be added > > to the orphan inode list which

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:46:29 AM Kamal Mostafa wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a pu

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Newbury
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 23:24 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:47:55 PM Steven Newbury wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:56 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 06:16:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafa

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 06:47:55 PM Steven Newbury wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:56 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 06:16:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > > In the meantime I received a rep

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Newbury
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:51 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:47 +0100, Steven Newbury wrote: > > > In the code as was present in the linux-pm/bleeding-edge tree I would > > encounter a hard lockup on keyboard brightness trigger. This also occurred > > with > > the code as

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Myklebust, Trond
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 13:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM, wrote: > > Hi Trond, > > > >> OK. With Andre's help, I think we've root caused the problem. Can you > >> please confirm that the attached patch also solves the issue for you? > > > > Seems to work fine, >

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM, wrote: > Hi Trond, > >> OK. With Andre's help, I think we've root caused the problem. Can you >> please confirm that the attached patch also solves the issue for you? > > Seems to work fine, > >Reported-and-tested-by: Henrik Rydberg Trond, do you have anyth

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:47 +0100, Steven Newbury wrote: > In the code as was present in the linux-pm/bleeding-edge tree I would > encounter a hard lockup on keyboard brightness trigger. This also occurred > with > the code as it initially hit mainline, but a later commit fixed the crash*, > bu

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread rydberg
Hi Trond, > OK. With Andre's help, I think we've root caused the problem. Can you > please confirm that the attached patch also solves the issue for you? Seems to work fine, Reported-and-tested-by: Henrik Rydberg Thanks, Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight)

2013-07-23 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:54 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and > > > efaa14c? > > > > Yes, but [.

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Myklebust, Trond
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:17 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 03:04 +0200, rydb...@euromail.se wrote: > > Hi Trond, Linus, > > > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:53:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. > > > > This one happens t

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-23 Thread Steven Newbury
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:56 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 06:16:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > In the meantime I received a report from Steven Newbury that these changes > > > broke things for him

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Myklebust, Trond
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 03:04 +0200, rydb...@euromail.se wrote: > Hi Trond, Linus, > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:53:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. > > This one happens to break nfs in a rather blunt-instrument fashion - > creating files on a

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread rydberg
Hi Trond, Linus, On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:53:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. This one happens to break nfs in a rather blunt-instrument fashion - creating files on a nfs4 partition [1] no longer works. Bisection yields this commit as the cul

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 08:46:47 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:37:42 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 03:15:38 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:02:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:0

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and efaa14c? > > Yes, but let's wait a while. Not because I think we'll fix the problem > (hey, miracles mi

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 06:16:20 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > In the meantime I received a report from Steven Newbury that these changes > > broke things for him too, so we need to revert commits 8c5bd7a and efaa14c. > > The other t

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:37:42 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 03:15:38 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:02:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: > > > > On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvald

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:02 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > In the meantime I received a report from Steven Newbury that these changes > broke things for him too, so we need to revert commits 8c5bd7a and efaa14c. > The other two commits in the series should be benign. Could you let me know the

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and efaa14c? Yes, but let's wait a while. Not because I think we'll fix the problem (hey, miracles might happen), but because I think it would be useful to couple the rever

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Tobias Klausmann
On 22.07.2013 15:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:07:03 PM Tobias Klausmann wrote: On 21.07.2013 21:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. ... (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on certain machines, a

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 03:15:38 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:02:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: > > > On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > > > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight h

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread James Hogan
On 22 July 2013 14:02, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: >> On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on >> > certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't b

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:02:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: > > On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on > > > > > > certain machines, and while this kind of

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:07:03 PM Tobias Klausmann wrote: > On 21.07.2013 21:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. > ... > > > > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on > > certain machines, and while this kind of thing reall

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: > On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on > > certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be > > done outside the merge window, I ended up pullin

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-21 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:25:17AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > I'll just point out that it can make the whole thing worse, too. > For example, for ext3/4, the tmpfile being created has to be added > to the orphan inode list which is protected by a filesystem global > mutex. Hence scalability of O

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-21 Thread Dave Chinner
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:53:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. > > The patch looks a bit odd, because by bulk 95% of the patch is just > the removal of the CSR staging driver that wasn't getting any > traction, so the diffstat (and the dirstat i

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-21 Thread James Hogan
On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on > certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be > done outside the merge window, I ended up pulling it anyway. But I'd > *really* like to have people test this th

Re: Linux 3.11-rc2

2013-07-21 Thread Tobias Klausmann
On 21.07.2013 21:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. ... (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be done outside the merge window, I ended up pulling it anyway.