Comment 129 for bug 357673

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hrnf, the brightness code merge was delayed for some reason, and will go in
> > in 2.6.33 (not 2.6.32). Ubuntu can backport it easily if they want, it is
> > available in the releases at ibm-acpi.sf.net, and also in my thinkpad-acpi
> > git trees. Previous Ubuntu kernels had thinkpad-acpi backports, so it is
> > not unlikely they will do that backport.
>
> Thanks; let's request this backport from the kernel team right now.

Ok. The current out-of-tree releases of thinkpad-acpi are stable, and are
suitable for production work. What's there is in its way to 2.6.33, either
already submitted or will be submitted soon.

Get one of the release/* branches, don't touch the "devel" branch for any
production work.

I suggest using the git tree at
git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git

Latest known stable releases are tagged *20091010, as of 2009-11-05.

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