Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: correct palmsensor error checking

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On 04/01/2021 10:32, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1/4/21 4:17 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 4:54 AM Mark Pearson
>> <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The previous commit adding functionality for the palm sensor had
>>> a mistake which meant the error conditions on initialisation was
>>> not checked correctly. On some older platforms this meant that if
>>> the sensor wasn't available an error would be returned and the
>>> driver would fail to load.
>> 
>>> This commit corrects the error condition. Many thanks to Mario
>>> Oenning for reporting and determining the issue
>> 
>> Hint to the future (maybe Hans will fix this while it's in his
>> review queue): we have a Reported-by tag. Of course if a person
>> would like to avoid it, then it's fine.
> 
> I did notice this too, but I did not fix it. For future patches the
> right thing to do is to ask the reporter if he is ok with a
> Reported-by tag being added (which will expose their email to the
> world) and then proceed depending on their answer, at least that is
> what I usually do. Although sometimes I do just add the Reported-by
> tag, esp. if the email has been send to a (couple of) lists, so the
> email already has been exposed to a large audience.
> 
Ack - thanks all. I wasn't aware of the reported-by etiquette :)

Probably a good one to know about....I'm sure this won't be the last
issue reported against a Lenovo system!

Mark



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