[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-26 Thread Marcus Pollice
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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-26 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marcus Pollice, while linux-input would apply here, yes, platform- driver-x86 would be a better choice. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397739 Title: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-23 Thread Marcus Pollice
Done, same as with 3.18. ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-3.19-rc1 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397739

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-23 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marcus Pollice, the issue you are reporting is an upstream one. Could you please report this problem to the appropriate mailing list (linux- input) by following the instructions verbatim at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/kernel ? Please provide a direct URL to your e-mail to the mailing

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-22 Thread Marcus Pollice
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

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-22 Thread Marcus Pollice
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

[Bug 1397739] Re: [HP Compaq nx6310] Function buttons for brightness stopped working

2014-12-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Marcus Police, and lastly could you please test the latest mainline kernel 3.19-rc1 and advise to the results? ** Tags added: bisect-done ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is