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Comment 40 for bug 1290418

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In , eugene.shatokhin (eugene.shatokhin-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to David Ward from comment #19)
> Eugene (and Peter),
>
> (In reply to Eugene A. Shatokhin from comment #13)
> > OS: ROSA Linux R7 x86_64, kernel 4.1.16.
> > The problem is seen with the kernel 4.4.3 as well.
> >
> > These kernels seem to have the first part of "Test patch v2" applied [...]
>
> Are you sure? The first part of the patch is not included in either upstream
> kernel version you mentioned:
>
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/
> drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c?h=v4.1.16#n716
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/
> drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c?h=v4.4.3#n716
>
>
> Note that the first part of the patch adds a second call to
> hp_wmi_perform_query() that appears nearly identical to the existing call --
> except the second parameter is different.

Ah, right. I did not notice it.

>
> Can you please test with both parts of the patch applied?

Yes, I'll prepare the kernel with the full patch and will ask our user to test it. I do not have such hardware myself unfortunately, so it might take several days.