On 11/08/2026 10:08, Greg KH wrote:
We aim to be "bug compatible" with Linus's branch, otherwise the
"pressure" to fix those bugs goes down. But I defer to the maintainers
of the code involved if it is being worked on, and they want it
reverted, great, we can do that. Otherwise we prefer to leave it as-is.
I understand. Sorry for asking about things that might be obvious to
most people here. My expectation was that only a selected subset of the
patches on the Linus' tree were to enter in stable, so do we really need
to have stable "bug compatible" wrt this bug? The original behavior was
not free of issues, but they were rather minor (a reporting issue). Now
we have this very bad behavior where the display remains dark.
To make the matter worse, on systems that have encrypted root the screen
remains dark also on that password prompt (observed with plymouth).
In any case, I managed testing 7.2.0RC7 and it is fine again.
Looks like the Linus' tree has more changes wrt backlight, and the
interesting ones are probably those in the cumulative fix
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=973fd9493ec21f12e760fbbedeb7b0b2317c02f4.
Best,
Sergio
