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From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:18:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116141849.GB2111@kamineko.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116051642.GA24410@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > You will need an updated input-kbd to set the scancode map.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> > > Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space?
> > 
> > Maybe. Anyway if evtest reacts positively to key presses then it's a
> > userspace issue and not the driver's.
> 
> What is strange that there *WAS* a change in the kernel that triggered
> that. Old kernels still work fine. I just tried 2.6.36 and it was working.
> 
> I always thought that kernel changes should not break user space
> (well, without good reason).

it's the same as this:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23022

-- 
mattia
:wq!

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-04 14:29 regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Norbert Preining
2010-11-10  3:58 ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-11 23:50   ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12  3:44     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12  3:50       ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12  3:57         ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-12  4:14           ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12  4:22           ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-12  4:39             ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-12 12:17               ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-16  5:16                 ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-16 14:18                   ` Mattia Dongili [this message]
2010-11-16 17:41                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17  6:30             ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17  6:33               ` Norbert Preining
2010-11-17  6:52                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-18 11:04                   ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 13:34                     ` Mattia Dongili
2010-11-18 18:06                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-17  7:12               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-11-12  7:38         ` Zhang Rui
2010-11-12 10:10           ` Norbert Preining

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