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

[Pali RohÃr]

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

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Pali RohÃr
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