Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v2] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for HKEY version 0x200

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:05:12AM -0400, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
> 2016-06-08 10:54 GMT-04:00 Lyude <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > From: Dennis Wassenberg <dennis.wassenberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Lenovo Thinkpad devices T460, T460s, T460p, T560, X260 use
> > HKEY version 0x200 without adaptive keyboard.
> >
> > HKEY version 0x200 has method MHKA with one parameter value.
> > Passing parameter value 1 will get hotkey_all_mask (the same like
> > HKEY version 0x100 without parameter). Passing parameter value 2 to
> > MHKA method will retrieve hotkey_all_adaptive_mask. If 0 is returned in
> > that case there is no adaptive keyboard available.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dennis Wassenberg <dennis.wassenberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Lyude <cpaul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Marco Trevisan <marco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Can you also Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that it can be imported
> there once merged?

It doesn't meet stable kernel rules unfortunately, with 143 lines diff.

Henrique, do you want to weigh in on whether this goes back to stable?

One thing I could do is include this in my 4.7-rc fixes branch instead of
waiting for 4.8.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center