Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753954Ab3HDWEz (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:04:55 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:55669 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753789Ab3HDWEy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:04:54 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: Steven Newbury , Joerg Platte , James Hogan , Kamal Mostafa , Aaron Lu , Kalle Valo , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matthew Garrett , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , ACPI Devel Maling List , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Otte , Daniel Vetter , intel-gfx , Jani Nikula Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 (acpi backlight, revert) Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:15:03 +0200 Message-ID: <2172124.xGLVSKhdfZ@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1514588.PZegN9olxR@merkaba> References: <1854576.vakuIzNrby@vostro.rjw.lan> <1514588.PZegN9olxR@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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: 2238 Lines: 50 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, 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 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 reverts with information about the particular machines > > > > > > that broke (and the people who reported it). So that when we > > > > > > inevitably try again, we can perhaps get some testing effort with > > > > > > those machines/people. > > > > > > > > > > > > It doesn't seem to be a show-stopped for a large number of people, > > > > > > so > > > > > > there's no huge hurry. I'd suggest doing the revert just in time for > > > > > > rc3, but waiting until then to gather info about people who see > > > > > > breakage. > > > > > > > > > > > > Sound like a plan? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it does. > > > > > > > > OK, time to revert I guess. > > > > > > > > James, Kamal, Steven, Jörg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended > > > > patch fixes the backlight for you. > > > > > > Rafael, do you still need more testing urgently? Otherwise I´d wait till > > > its in some next 3.11 rc and test then. > > > > Well, it seems to work for everybody else (Steven, Joerg, thanks for your > > reports!), so I don't think you need to test it urgently. > > Just a late confirmation: With 3.11-rc3 back light stuff is working nicely on > this ThinkPad T520. Thanks! -- 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/