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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Dec 05 2014 - 15:41:31 EST


On Fri 2014-12-05 21:31:34, Pali Rohár 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
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