On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:36:54 +0100 Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> ( Original posting from [1] ) >> >> I have the backlight-type patchset for months in my patch-series (and >> maintained them if necessary against daily linux-next). >> Also the last series from 14-Jan-2011 (see 1-5 patch from [2] and the >> following ones at dri-devel ML). >> >> If you couldn't find the updated v2 radeon-backlight-type patch, here >> the extract from my patch-series: >> ... >> # Patch from <https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/491351/> >> + backlight-type/v2-drm-radeon-kms-Expose-backlight-class-device-for-legacy-LVDS-encoder.patch >> ... >> >> I can only speak for the radeon(-KMS) part with >> CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=y set and against linux-next: It worked, >> it works. >> >> I am a bit angry that someone of the "big 5" gets immediately an >> answer where mine is ignored [3]. > > Well, who were they sent to? > > If it was dri-devel then perhaps the people there felt it was > inappropriate to their tree, or they were all busy fixing > 100000000000000 regressions. > > If it was Richard then he's been distracted by other things for some > time, which is why I recently started handling backlight and leds > patches. > > If it was me then kick me, but I don't think it was. > > In general, if you think that patches aren't getting attention then let > me know and send them to me - harassing people for you is part of my > job description. > >> So dear Mr. AKPM, if you can standstill for a few moments to answer >> only one of my questions, through which kernel-tree will this patchset >> walk trough? > > leds and backlight patches are presently getting merged into my tree > and I'm sending them into Linus. ÂI make sure that Richard sees them > all and when he finds time he helps review them for us. > > They should turn up in linux-next too - we're working on that. > > > This particular patch series is theoretically a bit late for 2.6.38, > but if anyone thinks that's a wrong decision, feel free to explain why. > > Short answer: No need to kick anybody. As I said I am using the patchset for a long time, so I am just fine seeing them in 2.6.38. ( Feel free to add a Tested-by... to all five patches. ) - Sedat - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
