Re: Backporting fix for #199981 to 4.19.y?

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 03 2021 - 05:19:24 EST


On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:24:04AM +0200, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
> On 6/3/21 10:07 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 09:53:46AM +0200, Laurențiu Păncescu wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm running Debian Buster on an old Asus EeePC and I see the battery always
> > > at 100% when unplugged, with an estimated battery life of 4200 hours, no
> > > matter how long I've been using it without AC power.
> > >
> > > I suspect this might be bug #201351, marked as duplicate of #199981 and
> > > fixed in 5.0-rc1. Would you please consider backporting it to the 4.19 LTS
> > > kernel?
> >
> > What specific commit in Linus's tree is this so we know what to
> > backport?
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I think it's commit b1c0330823fe842dbb34641f1410f0afa51c29d3.
>
> Many thanks,
> Laurențiu

That commit does not apply cleanly and I need a backported version. Can
you do that and test it to verify it works and then send it to us to be
applied?

thanks,

greg k-h