Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for the patch, ACK. >>>> >>> This one fixes a potentially bad problem, since we could ignore more than >>> just hot key EC events by accident. Maybe it should go to -stable? >>> >> I vote for it >> > > Well, in that case, it would be best to tack a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx git > footer to it right away, I think. > > IMHO, it would also be nice if the commit message made it more clear that > the issue it solves can affect much more serious ACPI events than just hot > key presses. > > Actually Alexey has another patch in bugzilla (#10919) which resolves this issue in a better way. It avoids polling altogether, which is good because it means you get events immediately. My laptop has backlight adjustment hotkeys with hardware autorepeat, so it looks really jerky with polling. So I think I should withdraw my patch and leave this to Alexey. I've tested his fix on my laptop and it works fine. It needs some more work though - e.g. at the moment it spams the kernel log. Thanks, Alan -- 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
