Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: Don't oops when FUJ02E3 is not presnt

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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:00:59PM +0300, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> My Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6120 doesn't have the FUJ02E3 device,
> but it does have FUJ02B1. That means we do register the backlight
> device (and it even seems to work), but the code will oops as soon
> as we try to set the backlight brightness because it's trying to
> call call_fext_func() with a NULL device. Let's just skip those
> function calls when the FUJ02E3 device is not present.
> 
> Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for all the discussion on this patch. While there are a couple approaches
we can take, it is clear further clean up and refactoring is in order. To fix
the Ooops now, I will apply this patch to fixes and Cc Stable.

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center



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