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

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Jul 20 19:55:35 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:56:55PM -0700, 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

Patch 1 is from 4.10 and already present in artful. However patches 2
and 3 are from 4.12, so I've applied them to artful/master-next. Thanks!




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