Re: [stable] [2.6.35-rc5] hp-wmi patch missed .35 merge window, requesting addition to next rc

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:08:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc's added)
> 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:23:57 -0700 Josh Hill <joshua.hill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > please cc as i'm unsubscribed
> > as reported in this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344
> > and the patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e
> > 
> > the backlight on this laptop goes down one level whenever
> > /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/status is read.
> > i've been told the patch missed the .35 merge window, and is going to
> > be in .36, but ubuntu is
> > going to release 10.10 soon with .35 in it, and if this patch doesn't
> > make it into .35 my laptop
> > will be doing this for its (10.10) entire lifetime. i didn't know who
> > to really contact and request this sort
> > of thing so i'm doing it here.
> 
> The suggestion is that mainline's
> 751ae808f6b29803228609f51aa1ae057f5c576e ("x86 platform drivers: hp-wmi
> Reorder event id processing") be backported into 2.6.35.x to fix the
> post-2.6.32 regression described in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15344

Now applied.

thanks,

greg k-h
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