Re: [PATCH] toshiba-wmi: Fix loading the driver on non Toshiba laptops

From: Darren Hart
Date: Fri Oct 21 2016 - 01:01:40 EST


On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:27:49PM -0600, Azael Avalos wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> 2016-10-19 14:26 GMT-06:00 Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>

> >
> > Want to going to stable?
>
> If possible, yes, as this issue affects other laptop manufacturers,
> we may never know if someone might try to load an older kernel
> on an affected laptop and end up with the toshiba_wmi loaded
> instead of the actual laptop support module, however, I'm not
> sure if this is a "big" issue to bother stable, if not, simply drop
> the cc to stable for me please.

My addled brain somehow skipped right over the Cc stable in your original patch,
I saw it later :-) Kept it.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center