Re: [PATCH 0/3] dell-wmi: Don't send unneeded keypresses

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Fri Dec 05 2014 - 16:07:44 EST


On Friday 05 December 2014 21:41:22 Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2014-12-05 21:31:34, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 December 2014 14:34:32 Darren Hart wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 12:16:20AM +0100, Gabriele
> > > Mazzotta
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Currently dell-wmi reports keypresses for WMI events
> > > > that are notifications of changes performed by the
> > > > BIOS. This patch series make sure that no keypresses
> > > > are sent for those events so that nothing is done from
> > > > userspace.
> > > >
> > > > Gabriele Mazzotta (3):
> > > > dell-wmi: Use appropriate keycode for radio state
> > > > changes dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses for radio
> > > > state changes
> > >
> > > Merged into one patch, queued.
> > >
> > > > dell-wmi: Don't report keypresses on keybord
> > > > illumination change
> > >
> > > Queued.
> > >
> > > Thanks Gabriele.
> >
> > Darren, what do you think about sending patch into stable
> > kernel?
>
> I'd suggest against that. -stable is for "serious" bugs, and
> we don't want to change this kind of behaviour in -stable
> kernel.
>
> Pavel

Ok, I agree that it is subjective how serious it is...
Just to remind that patch fixing problem described in

http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05922.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.html

--
Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.