Greg KH wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 08:42 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> From: René Bollford <xsecute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:56:42 +0200 >>> >>> commit d4afc7754a60b885b63ef23fd194984e2d53a4e6 upstream. >>> >>> This patch avoid a page fault in the ideapad-laptop extras when >>> turning the backlight power on or off. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Rene Bolldorf <xsecute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Tested-by: Artem X <artem.brz@xxxxxxxxx> [...] > <formletter> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > for how to do this properly. > > </formletter> Well, what did I do wrong this time? - The patch is obviously correct and tested. - It is a two-liner, plus context. - It fixes exactly one thing. - The bug bothers people, and I gave links to reports. - It is an oops (a null pointer dereference). - No unrelated "trivial" fixes in there. - Follows SubmittingPatches rules, as far as I know. - Patch was produced by cherry-picking the commit named above from Linus's tree. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
