On Wednesday 03 December 2014 19:03:37 Darren Hart wrote: > 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.ht > > ml > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.h > > tml > > 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, so how you decided? Now when patches are in linus tree, are you going to send them to stable tree? -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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