Hi Darren, On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 11:24:04AM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:56:10PM -0200, Marcos Paulo de Souza wrote: > > Without this patch, the Asus X45U wireless card can't be turned > > on (hard-blocked), but after a suspend/resume it just starts working. > > > > Following this bug report[1], there are other cases like this one, but > > this Asus is the only model that I can test. > > > > [1] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181558 > > > > Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > This patch applies smoothly in 4.8.6 and 4.4.29. I hope now I followed > > the instructions correctly. > > Hi Marcos, > > You'll find exact steps in the stable_kernel_rules.txt document regarding how to > annotate the commit message with Cc lines indicating to which versions this > patch should be applied. > > If, for example, you have verified that this patch is relevant only to 4.4 and > forward, you would include: > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4.x- > > But this should mean that the patch is explicitly broken or otherwise > inappropriate for 4.3 and earlier. Yes, I have misread the documentation. I could apply the patch as is just in the versions 4.8.6 and 4.4.29, but maybe I could rework te patch earlier versions. But, aside from stable tree, do you agree with this change, since it fixes the wireless problem in this laptop? Thanks, > > Thanks, > > -- > 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
