Shouldn't it rather go to platform-driver-x86 given the hp-wmi driver
seems to be the culprit as the bisection has shown?
As the instructions advise I would CC the maintainer and the committer
(since it is a regression) as well.
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Done, same as with 3.18.
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-3.19-rc1
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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During the bisection I came across something that may be interesting
with regard to the issue. While a freshly booted kernel with the issue
has the functionality non-working, after going into standby and waking
up it works as it did before. I verified that also with the 3.18 release
kernel. This
The offending commit is
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f82bdd0d77b6bf0dea08a1d957ab45d503f328b1
Since the BIOS of the laptop is from 2008 (but still the latest), it is
obvious that after that change it won't work anymore. It would be
interesting to know
I ran a test with kernel 3.18-rc7-vivid where the problem persists. I
ran another test with 3.15.10-utopic where the functionality is as it
was in the 3.13 release. So I assume the issue was introduced in the
3.16 series.
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream kernel-bug-exists-
Public bug reported:
In 14.04 using kernel 3.13 the special function buttons of this HP
Compaq nx6310 laptop used to work correctly. I could increase or
decrease brightness, invoke the battery settings (mostly useless but it
worked), switch to an external display or enter sleep mode. The key
