On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, January 18, 2016 03:04:28 PM Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Monday, January 18, 2016 12:52:53 PM Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> I'm running 4.4 with the pm+acpi-4.5-rc1-1 merged in. After pressing >> >> the backlight hotkeys a couple times, things start to break. Poking >> >> at hung thread stacks, it appears that calls to >> >> acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses never return. >> >> >> >> It appears that the culprit is: >> >> >> >> commit aecbd9b1bff6afbe349921b406b99d285b412820 >> >> Author: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Date: Mon Jan 4 23:22:28 2016 +0100 >> >> >> >> ACPI / video: driver must be registered before checking for keypresses >> >> >> >> Reverting that patch makes my laptop work again. >> >> >> >> I don't know what that patch is trying to do, but it looks highly >> >> questionable to me. Why should an accessor wait for a potential >> >> different driver to register something? I see no guarantee that it >> >> will eve happen. >> >> >> >> This is a Dell XPS 13 9350. >> > >> > Should be fixed in my linux-next branch, can you please try that one? >> > >> >> To avoid churning my laptop tree too much, I cherry-picked: >> >> ACPI / video: Add disable_backlight_sysfs_if quirk for the Toshiba >> Satellite R830 >> ACPI / video: Revert "thinkpad_acpi: Use >> acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses()" >> ACPI / video: Document acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses() a bit >> ACPI / video: Fix using an uninitialized mutex / list_head in >> acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses() >> ACPI / video: Revert "ACPI / video: driver must be registered before >> checking for keypresses" >> >> The result seems to work. Are you planning on sending these for 4.5? > > Yes, I am. > > Most likely on Wednesday (or Thursday if anything urgent shows up in the meantime). > Sounds good. I'll keep testing. Some day my laptop will Just Work on a distro kernel :) --Andy -- 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
