2013/7/25 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>: > On Monday, July 22, 2013 09:54:21 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> On Monday, July 22, 2013 11:11:54 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > >> > > Linus, do you want me to send a pull request reverting 8c5bd7a and efaa14c? >> > >> > Yes, but let's wait a while. Not because I think we'll fix the problem >> > (hey, miracles might happen), but because I think it would be useful >> > to couple the reverts with information about the particular machines >> > that broke (and the people who reported it). So that when we >> > inevitably try again, we can perhaps get some testing effort with >> > those machines/people. >> > >> > It doesn't seem to be a show-stopped for a large number of people, so >> > there's no huge hurry. I'd suggest doing the revert just in time for >> > rc3, but waiting until then to gather info about people who see >> > breakage. >> > >> > Sound like a plan? >> >> Yes, it does. > > OK, time to revert I guess. > > James, Kamal, Steven, Jörg, Martin, Kalle, please check if the apppended patch > fixes the backlight for you. > Problems, problems :-) I tried to apply on top of 3.11-rc2: jojo@ahorn:/data/kernel/linux$ git log --pretty=oneline | head -5 3b2f64d00c46e1e4e9bd0bb9bb12619adac27a4b Linux 3.11-rc2 ea45ea70b6131fa0b006f5b687b9b1398b24f681 Merge tag 'acpi-video-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 90db76e829479ef2ba1fed8f2552846015469831 Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 dda5690defe4af62ee120f055e98e40d97e4c760 ext3: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag e94bd3490f4ef342801cfc76b33d8baf9ccc9437 ext4: fix a BUG when opening a file with O_TMPFILE flag jojo@ahorn:/data/kernel/linux$ git apply --check /data/kernel/acpi-backlight-revert.patch error: patch failed: drivers/acpi/video.c:897 error: drivers/acpi/video.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c:1648 error: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: include/acpi/video.h:17 error: include/acpi/video.h: patch does not apply error: patch failed: drivers/acpi/video_detect.c:235 error: drivers/acpi/video_detect.c: patch does not apply error: patch failed: include/linux/acpi.h:191 error: include/linux/acpi.h: patch does not apply error: patch failed: drivers/acpi/internal.h:169 error: drivers/acpi/internal.h: patch does not apply -- 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
