Re: 3.1rc10 null pointer dereferenceideapad_backlight_notify_power

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Oct 20 2011 - 01:35:40 EST


On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Ike Panhc wrote:

> This issue has been reported[1] and patch[2] is ready.
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02340.html
>
> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02343.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02346.html
>

It certainly looks like the patch in [2] will fix the issue, but it looks
like those are from a couple months ago and I'm still not seeing it in
linux-next. Matthew, how is this going to Linus and will it be cc'd to
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?
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