Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753221Ab3HCWLk (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Aug 2013 18:11:40 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:54283 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752744Ab3HCWLi (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Aug 2013 18:11:38 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Felipe Contreras Cc: Linus Torvalds , ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , Linux PM list , Igor Gnatenko Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI and power management fixes for v3.11-rc4 Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:21:51 +0200 Message-ID: <2523721.mjZMWxdZdS@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <2052880.bHfzt6NKt5@vostro.rjw.lan> <2185529.xKyHXi1s1o@vostro.rjw.lan> 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: 910 Lines: 28 On Saturday, August 03, 2013 05:06:10 PM Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: [...] > > Whatever you are thinking you will achieve this way, it doesn't work. > > It is the reality: v3.7 is broken, v3.8 is broken, v3.9 is broken, > v3.10 is broken, v3.11 is going to be broken, v3.12 will probably be > broken too, and perhaps even v3.13. Be precise and say "backlight control on a number of machines in broken in those kernels". Yes, it is. It needs to be fixed. Not necessarily your way, though. > Who benefits from this? Clearly, no one. And who benefits from your "crusade"? Again, no one. -- 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/