Hi, On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:52, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not input or stable maintainer, but... > > > I like to ask for inclusion into stable series for these. > > > > The original patch from Dmitry can be found here: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7689 > > comment #64, #65. > > > > The reason is: > > - These patches fix a lot weird stuff on all recent > > HP nc/nx series laptop models. > > Well, I'd call that "work around hardware problems in broken HP > laptops". There's HP BIOS bugzilla somewhere, perhaps we should fix it > that way? > > > - The problem with the psmouse thing is, if you booted > > a broken kernel, rebooting a fixed one will still result > > in a broken system (things break (or get fixed) on shutdown > > and survive the reboot). > > Therefore the patch(es) should get into as much kernels > > as possible to avoid further confusions on bug reports... > > Yes, it is quite nasty problem, but: > > 1) Fix is non-trivial (>100 lines, which violates -stable rule IIRC) > > 2) Fix is very disconnected from the problem. "Deinitialize mouse so > that fans work after reboot". WTF? > > 3) AFAICT it is not a regression. No, it isn't, but there are many people who have problems with suspending and even rebooting their laptops without this patch. Including me. ;-) Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
