On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:54 +0100, Vincent Blut wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.2.39-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Hi, > > Since Linux 3.7, the brightness hotkeys work on this laptop. Initially I > thought that this support was added by a specific plateform driver > commit but after diving in git log it didn't make any sense about why these > hotkeys worked in 3.7 so I started to bisect in order to find the > culprit. Here it is: Please apply this to stable branches earlier than 3.7. It doesn't appear to depend on any other changes post-3.0. > >From d627b62ff8d4d36761adbcd90ff143d79c94ab22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:36:24 +0000 > Subject: i915: initialize CADL in opregion [...] > Well, after this result I was puzzled because it seemed to be a > Clevo specific issue but I decided to give it a try and effectively it > gave me the expected behavior, so please could you add it in the next > Wheezy upload? > > Also this should probably be forwarded to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a > revised commit message stipulating that not only Clevo laptop are > affected, don't know if it is possible though. Normally the original commit message is used unchanged. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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