Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for v7.4-1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 at 23:59, Ilpo Järvinen
<ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Highlights:

Please, people - give a *summary*.

Not 150 lines that just re-organizes the shortlog with some editing.

It's not a "Highlight" if it just repeats every small detail. That's
just a "list". And it certainly isn't informative.

I - and others who read merge commits - want to know the big picture.
Not every driver detail. If I wanted to know the exact details of what
happened in some particular driver, I would be reading the commits for
that driver. That's not what the merge is about. The merge is about
bigger issues than to see things like this:

    - intel/pmt:
       - Block mmap when read_telem() callback is present

and that's just one example of a *lot* of "this is not a big picture
issue, it's a small detail in one particular driver".

I suspect one thing that is actually a "bigger picture" issue is that

 - ACPI: video: Remove CONFIG_X86 dependency as WMI now supports non-X86
               archs

which is something that people might find interesting in general.

On the whole, I think 90% of that list should have been written along
the lines of

 "Usual updates for laptop quirks from HP, ASUS, Acer and Dell:
    - new model names and recent CPU support
    - more special button / function key handling
    - battery and hardware monitoring quirks"

or something.

Please *help* me write usable merge messages that are actually
informative and not just a "data dump". For the data dump, we have the
details in the git history.

                Linus