Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:18:05 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH] [stable-37] ideapad: read brightness setting when have brightness key notify |
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 06:35:25PM +0800, Ike Panhc wrote: > BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25922 > > On ideapad Y530, the brightness key notify will be blocked if the last notify > is not responsed by getting the brightness value. Read value when we get the > notify shall fix the problem and will not have any difference on other ideapads. > > This patch is made against 2.6.37.y and this bug impacts kernel after 2.6.37. > > The equivalent-fix patch is not in upstream yet. Since the policy of stable tree > is changed and .38 kernel is going to finalize.
What "policy of the stable tree is changed"? Huh?
> I think to post this patch for stable kernel now should be a good > idea.
Have you not read the Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt and seen that this is totally and completly not allowed? Why is it suddenly not true?
confused,
greg k-h
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