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Date:   Fri, 8 Mar 2019 14:39:44 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc:     ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br, dvhart@infradead.org, andy@infradead.org,
        ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
        platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Read EC information on
 newer models
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On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:14:26PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Newer ThinkPads have a totally different EC program information DMI
> table. And thermal subdriver can't work without correct EC version.
> 
> Read from this entry if the old method failed to get EC information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>