From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:18:50 +0900 Message-ID: <20101116141849.GB2111@kamineko.org> References: <20101104142915.GC7650@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101110035833.GB3029@kamineko.org> <20101111235000.GA6651@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112034423.GA7407@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112035027.GD26742@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112035732.GB7574@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112042243.GE2852@kamineko.org> <20101112043922.GA19889@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112121742.GA17690@kamineko.org> <20101116051642.GA24410@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from static-220-247-10-204.b-man.svips.gol.ne.jp ([220.247.10.204]:56235 "EHLO smtp.kamineko.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757920Ab0KPOSv (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:18:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116051642.GA24410@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Norbert Preining Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Mailing List 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!