On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:07:35PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2014 21:41:22 Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Fri 2014-12-05 21:31:34, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > On Wednesday 03 December 2014 14:34:32 Darren Hart wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:16:20AM +0100, Gabriele > > > > Mazzotta > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Currently dell-wmi reports keypresses for WMI events > > > > > that are notifications of changes performed by the > > > > > BIOS. This patch series make sure that no keypresses > > > > > are sent for those events so that nothing is done from > > > > > userspace. > > > > > > > > > > Gabriele Mazzotta (3): > > > > > dell-wmi: Use appropriate keycode for radio state > > > > > changes dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses for radio > > > > > state changes > > > > > > > > Merged into one patch, queued. > > > > > > > > > dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses on keybord > > > > > illumination change > > > > > > > > Queued. > > > > > > > > Thanks Gabriele. > > > > > > Darren, what do you think about sending patch into stable > > > kernel? > > > > I'd suggest against that. -stable is for "serious" bugs, and > > we don't want to change this kind of behaviour in -stable > > kernel. > > > > Pavel > > Ok, I agree that it is subjective how serious it is... > Just to remind that patch fixing problem described in > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05922.html > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.html I don't have any objection to sending this back to stable. Stable is for fixing REAL bugs, as opposed to theorhetical races, etc. This is a "real" bug. As to not chaning behavior, if it's OK for mainline, it's OK for stable. At least that is my understanding of it. Folks are free to verify with Greg if they disagree. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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
