Re: [stable] patchthinkpad-acpi-fix-incorrect-use-of-tpacpi_brght_mode_ecnvram.patch addedto 2.6.30-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 19:33:53 EST


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:02:45AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Friday 14 August 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:31:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > > This patch fails to compile if applied to 2.6.30 + current stable queue.
> > > [...]
> > > > It seems to depend on the new quirk handling, introduced in:
> > > > commit 7d95a3d564901e88ed42810f054e579874151999
> > >
> > > Good catch. And I _will_ need that quirk handling stuff to keep 2.6.30 in
> > > shape :-(
> >
> > Oops, sorry for missing this.
> >
> > > The dependencies for the "thinkpad-acpi: fix incorrect use of
> > > TPACPI_BRGHT_MODE_ECNVRAM" patch are:
> >
> > Due to the need to add a new feature just to get these quirks to work,
> > I'll just drop this single patch, which should keep everything building
> > properly, right?
>
> Yes, dropping this patch
> thinkpad-acpi-fix-incorrect-use-of-tpacpi_brght_mode_ecnvram.patch
> results in a buildable tree again.

Thanks again so much for verifying this, I really appreciate it.

greg k-h
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