Rawhide backlight patches
Hans de Goede
hdegoede at redhat.com
Fri Aug 22 13:57:15 UTC 2014
Hi,
On 08/18/2014 04:40 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> With 3.17-rc1, I had to drop the following patches:
>
> asus-wmi-Add-a-no-backlight-quirk.patch
>
> This one seems to have been solved in a different manner upstream with
> commit d8c66f62992dac3a92cbc5f16791557100c7a068.
>
> eeepc-wmi-Add-no-backlight-quirk-for-Asus-H87I-PLUS-.patch
>
> This one depends on the no_backlight field added to the quirk struct
> in the previous patch.
>
> Both of them were marked as "Sent for 3.16" and that obviously didn't
> wind up happening, so I've dropped them for now. The eeepc change
> looks to be the only one that is really of concern, but there's no
> clear solution there to me. If you have an alternative patch for it,
> let me know.
Both were fixed for 3.17 in an alternative way. So dropping them is
the right thing to do.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Regards,
Hans
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