Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755474Ab3GVM6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:58:19 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:60752 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755405Ab3GVM6R (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:58:17 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Tobias Klausmann Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Devel Maling List Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:08:13 +0200 Message-ID: <2494093.OzngazxDQW@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <51EC4D77.2010502@mni.thm.de> References: <51EC4D77.2010502@mni.thm.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 35 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 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 thing particularly on laptops > > with intel-based graphics. It should only matter (and hopefully > > improve things) for the newer ones with BIOSes designed for Windows 8, > > but hey, the more testing, the better. Backlight handling has been > > painful before, so I'm mentioning this explicitly. > > > > This pach finally fixes my backlight control! Yes, it fixes that for a number of people, which is the reason why I send the pull request in the first place, but it also turns out to break things for some people and therefore it'll have to be reverted. We're still going to work on that, though. Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/