On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:40:28AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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. Sorry, I missed the 3.1 in the subject line. That's what I get for processing email before my morning coffee... This is all fine, I'll queue it up for the next release. Oh wait, there isn't going to be another 3.1 kernel release, so this might not have been needed. I'll see if others really want another 3.1 release, and if so, I'll add this to it. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
