[PATCH 0/3][X/Y/Z] Add hotkey supports for new Thinkpad systems

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Wed Jul 19 08:30:41 UTC 2017


On 19/07/17 05:56, Alex Hung wrote:
> Impact:
>   New Thinkpad systems comes with new ACPI ID and/or new BIOS events, and 
>   thinkpad_acpi requires to handle them differently.
> 
> Fix:
>   The fixes include 1) add a new ACPI ID, 2) add new keycodes for hotkeys.
> 
>   The patches are included in upstream and are cherry-picked from Linus's repo.
> 
> Regression Potential:
>   The impacts should be low as the fixes affect either systems with new ID or
>   with the new BIOS events.
> 
> Note:
>   Patch "platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Adding new hotkey ID for Lenovo thinkpad"
>   is not needed for Zesty
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705169
> 
> 
> Christian Kellner (2):
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: guard generic hotkey case
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: add mapping for new hotkeys
> 
> Hui Wang (1):
>   platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Adding new hotkey ID for Lenovo thinkpad
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 

Minimal impact on one particular platform driver, upstream cherry picks,
and has positive some test results.  Looks good. Thanks Alex.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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