Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755965AbaGNRnK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:43:10 -0400 Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:57034 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752174AbaGNRnD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:43:03 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Hans de Goede , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Mork , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux ACPI , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [BISECTED 3.16-rc REGREGRESSION] backlight control stopped working Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:01:14 +0200 Message-ID: <3905689.dLVXZ99cEJ@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.15.0-rc5+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <87pph8kse7.fsf@nemi.mork.no> <53C3D7C3.7090505@redhat.com> 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 On Monday, July 14, 2014 09:24:16 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > This *not* a regression, it is an intended behavior change [..] > > That counts as a regression. > > If things used to work, and they don't work, it's a regression. If > it's intentional, that just makes it worse. > > > Yes this may break existing configurations for some users, most likely > > users running some custom setup, who thus should be able to fix things > > by adding one more customization to there setup. > > .. and apparently this whole paragraph is completely bogus. It *does* > break things, and for normal people. That's what the bug report is all > about. So don't waffle about it. > > Bjørn, what's your setup? Is this perhaps solvable some other way? > > > TL;DR: This change really is for the better and is here to stay. > > Wrong. We don't break existing setups, and your attitude needs fixing. > > Rafael, please get it reverted, or I will have to revert it. I've queued up a revert already. I'll include it into my next pull request later this week. 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/