Re: pls backport two thinkpad-acpi patches for X1 carbon 2nd generation

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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 03:26:41PM +0800, Shuduo Sang wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:33:41PM +0800, Shuduo Sang wrote:
> >> Hi stable tree maintainer,
> >>
> >> Pls backport two patches for Thinkpad X1 carbon 2nd generation's fancy
> >> adaptive keyboard:
> >>
> >> 330947b84382479459e5296a0024c670367b0b57 save and restore adaptive
> >> keyboard mode for suspend and resume
> >>
> >> 3a9d20bda1d6daae9d81a4cc4cc67238c5574d31 support Thinkpad X1 Carbon
> >> 2nd generation's adaptive keyboard
> >
> > That's a really "big" patch for a stable kernel, do you think it matches
> > the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt rules?
> >
> 
> Above patches are well tested on Ubuntu 14.04 Beta with 3.13 kernel and Debian
> with Linus tree.
> 
> Sorry 3a9d20bda1d6daae9d81a4cc4cc67238c5574d31 is about 150 lines.
> But it's fundamental to initially support adaptive keyboard. It's hard to split.

It looks like this is a "support new hardware" request, which doesn't
happen in stable kernel releases, unless it is just a "simple" quirk or
device id addition.  At 150 lines, that does not meet these rules,
sorry.

greg k-h
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