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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