From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== Commit 178c2490b99f898efc06d1ad75cadc84f13021a6 ("thermal: step_wise: cdev only needs update on a new target state") broke driver acerhdf. That driver abused the step_wise thermal governor until the bang_bang governor was available, and the optimization broke this usage model. Kernels v3.12 to v3.18 are affected. In v3.19 the acerhdf driver was switched to the bang_bang governor and that solved the problem. For kernels v3.12 to v3.17, the bang_bang governor isn't available yet so the easiest fix is to revert the optimization. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dieter Jurzitza (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925961) Tested-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dieter Jurzitza --- drivers/thermal/step_wise.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c b/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c index d89e781b0a18..769bfa3a4360 100644 --- a/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/step_wise.c @@ -140,9 +140,6 @@ static void thermal_zone_trip_update(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int trip) old_target = instance->target; instance->target = get_target_state(instance, trend, throttle); - if (old_target == instance->target) - continue; - /* Activate a passive thermal instance */ if (old_target == THERMAL_NO_TARGET && instance->target != THERMAL_NO_TARGET) -- 2.4.1 -- 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