Re: Bug#703271: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: Fix brightness hotkeys on ASUS UX31A laptop

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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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