Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:43:13 +0200 | From | Tobias Klausmann <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 |
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On 22.07.2013 15:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, July 21, 2013 11:07:03 PM Tobias Klausmann wrote: >> On 21.07.2013 21:53, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> So it's been another week, and -rc2 is out there. >> ... >>> (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on >>> certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be >>> done outside the merge window, I ended up pulling it anyway. But I'd >>> *really* like to have people test this thing particularly on laptops >>> with intel-based graphics. It should only matter (and hopefully >>> improve things) for the newer ones with BIOSes designed for Windows 8, >>> but hey, the more testing, the better. Backlight handling has been >>> painful before, so I'm mentioning this explicitly. >>> >> This pach finally fixes my backlight control! > Yes, it fixes that for a number of people, which is the reason why I send > the pull request in the first place, but it also turns out to break things > for some people and therefore it'll have to be reverted. > > We're still going to work on that, though. > > Thanks, > Rafael > > If you have new patches ready for this and you want them to be tested, let me know!
Thanks, Tobias
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