ACK: [PATCH 0/4][SRU][xenial] intel-hid: handle new hotkeys including wireless button

[Stefan Bader]

On 28.06.2016 11:02, Alex Hung wrote:
> Impact:
>   Intel ntroduced a new ACPI device to handle various hotkeys, especially, it is
>   used to handle the wireless hotkey in newer dell laptop systems.
> 
> Fix:
>   The new driver handles new events and fix the problem that wireless hoteky 
>   does not work on new Dell systems
> 
>   The patches are included in upstream and are cherry-picked from Linus's repo.
> 
> Tested:
>   The patches are tested on Dell XPS 13 9360
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589886

Since it adds a new driver which is limited to specific HID there should be low
risk of regression on other platforms. So I guess its ok to SRU. (beside the
slightly weird claims of target OS...)

-Stefan

> 
> Alex Hung (3):
>   intel-hid: new hid event driver for hotkeys
>   intel-hid: fix incorrect entries in intel_hid_keymap
>   intel-hid: add a workaround to ignore an event after waking up from
>     S4.
> 
> Wolfram Sang (1):
>   intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private struct
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                      |   6 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig     |  12 ++
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile    |   1 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c | 289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 308 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c
> 


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