On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 02:10:46PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote: > commit 9862b43624 upstream > > There has been a race condition identified with initialization of the dell-laptop > driver due to changes in 4.15. This commit has been shown to resolve the race > condition. > > I'd like to see this brought back to 4.15 stable. It doesn't apply to anything earlier. It doesn't apply cleanly to 4.15.y, it has 2 unresolved hunks. Can you provide a backported version so that it can be applied? thanks, greg k-h