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

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Sat Dec 20 2014 - 04:11:01 EST


On Wednesday 03 December 2014 19:03:37 Darren Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:07:35PM +0100, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > 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.ht
> > ml
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg05924.h
> > tml
>
> I don't have any objection to sending this back to stable.
> Stable is for fixing REAL bugs, as opposed to theorhetical
> races, etc. This is a "real" bug.
>
> As to not chaning behavior, if it's OK for mainline, it's OK
> for stable. At least that is my understanding of it. Folks
> are free to verify with Greg if they disagree.

Darren, so how you decided? Now when patches are in linus tree,
are you going to send them to stable tree?

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Pali RohÃr
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