Re: [PATCH] Ignore garbage in dell-wmi events

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Apr 29 2009 - 16:17:22 EST


On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:40:34 -0500
Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In debugging with some future machines that actually contain BIOS level
> support for dell-wmi, I've determined that the upper half of the data
> that comes back from wmi_get_event_data may sometimes contain extra
> information that isn't currently relevant when pulling scan codes out of
> the data. This causes dell-wmi to improperly respond to these events.
>
> I'm attaching a patch (Exchange would munge up the line breaks otherwise).

Can you please send along a Signed-off-by: for this patch?
Documentation/SubmittingPatches explains what it's all about.

Thanks.
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