From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751572Ab0KPFQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:16:50 -0500 Received: from mx.logic.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.175.19]:57193 "EHLO mx.logic.tuwien.ac.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770Ab0KPFQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:16:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:16:42 +0900 From: Norbert Preining To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Mailing List Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Message-ID: <20101116051642.GA24410@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101112121742.GA17690@kamineko.org> X-IMAPbase: 1289640783 1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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). Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense? --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy