Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758122Ab3GWVOe (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:14:34 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:36360 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758036Ab3GWVOb (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:14:31 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Steven Newbury Cc: Matthew Garrett , James Hogan , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kamal Mostafa , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , ACPI Devel Maling List Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:24:33 +0200 Message-ID: <2081090.JJVTShTh7K@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1374601675.29964.15.camel@artifact> References: <1943327.gJaLv781Zb@vostro.rjw.lan> <1374601675.29964.15.camel@artifact> 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: 1612 Lines: 38 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 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 details of this problem? > > > > Steven, can you please describe the problem you're seeing to Matthew and > > the other people on the list? > > > > Rafael > > > > Before the changes backlight was working fine using the ACPI method: > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/ is present and the keyboard function keys > control brightness with notifications working in GNOME. > > 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*, but > resulted in no backlight controls being available at all. > /sys/class/backlight is empty. > > *not actually sure if /sys/class/backlight contained anything before this Hmm. Which commit fixed the crash for you? Rafael -- 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/