This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sony-laptop: do not scribble keyboard backlight registers on to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sony-laptop-do-not-scribble-keyboard-backlight-registers-on.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b975dc3689fc6a3718ad288ce080924f9cb7e176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 07:43:50 +0900 Subject: sony-laptop: do not scribble keyboard backlight registers on resume From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> commit b975dc3689fc6a3718ad288ce080924f9cb7e176 upstream. Follow-up to commit 294d31e8227c ("sony-laptop: don't change keyboard backlight settings"): avoid messing up the state on resume. Leave it to what was before suspending as it's anyway likely that we still don't know what value we should write to the EC registers. This fix is also required in 3.12 Tested-by: Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c @@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(kbd_backlight_timeout, "on the model (default: no change from current value)"); #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP -static void sony_nc_kbd_backlight_resume(void); static void sony_nc_thermal_resume(void); #endif static int sony_nc_kbd_backlight_setup(struct platform_device *pd, @@ -1486,13 +1485,6 @@ static void sony_nc_function_resume(void case 0x0135: sony_nc_rfkill_update(); break; - case 0x0137: - case 0x0143: - case 0x014b: - case 0x014c: - case 0x0163: - sony_nc_kbd_backlight_resume(); - break; default: continue; } @@ -1894,25 +1886,6 @@ static void sony_nc_kbd_backlight_cleanu } } -#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP -static void sony_nc_kbd_backlight_resume(void) -{ - int ignore = 0; - - if (!kbdbl_ctl) - return; - - if (kbdbl_ctl->mode == 0) - sony_call_snc_handle(kbdbl_ctl->handle, kbdbl_ctl->base, - &ignore); - - if (kbdbl_ctl->timeout != 0) - sony_call_snc_handle(kbdbl_ctl->handle, - (kbdbl_ctl->base + 0x200) | - (kbdbl_ctl->timeout << 0x10), &ignore); -} -#endif - struct battery_care_control { struct device_attribute attrs[2]; unsigned int handle; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from malattia@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/sony-laptop-do-not-scribble-keyboard-backlight-registers-on.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html