bug 748210 - a kernel oops - the patch is available - would it be possible to include it in F16?

[little.owl]

Hi all,

I was looking at the bug "Kernel panic when turning off screen backlight using laptop Fn key":

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748210

The oops is caused by the null pointer dereference in the module ideapad-laptop.c and it affects, as the name says, almost all Lenovo Ideapad laptops/netbooks.

It is a regression in the kernel 3.1 and a patch is available here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/19/485
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg02343.htm...

The Fedora's package kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.src.rpm is not patched.

Would it be possible to include the patch in the final F16?

Regards

Vaclav M.

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:12 PM, little.owl  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking at the bug "Kernel panic when turning off screen backlight using laptop Fn key":
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748210
>
> The oops is caused by the null pointer dereference in the module ideapad-laptop.c and it affects, as the name says, almost all Lenovo Ideapad laptops/netbooks.
>
> It is a regression in the kernel 3.1 and a patch is available here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/19/485
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg02343.htm...

I'll look at including that soon.  It's not in Linus' tree yet either,
so I'll figure out why.
> The Fedora's package kernel-3.1.0-7.fc16.src.rpm is not patched.
>
> Would it be possible to include the patch in the final F16?

It's too late to include it in the final release without slipping and
this isn't serious enough to cause the entire release to slip.  It
will go out as an update, probably a 0-day one as I expect 3.1.1 will
be released by then anyway.

josh