Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932293Ab3GVPnR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:17 -0400 Received: from mout1.fh-giessen.de ([212.201.18.42]:53596 "EHLO mout1.fh-giessen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756341Ab3GVPnQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:43:16 -0400 Message-ID: <51ED5311.7070200@mni.thm.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:43:13 +0200 From: Tobias Klausmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/25.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Devel Maling List Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 References: <51EC4D77.2010502@mni.thm.de> <2494093.OzngazxDQW@vostro.rjw.lan> In-Reply-To: <2494093.OzngazxDQW@vostro.rjw.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1459 Lines: 35 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, 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 > > If you have new patches ready for this and you want them to be tested, let me know! Thanks, Tobias -- 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/