On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:39:19PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
There is no longer a need for the buffer to be defined in first 4GB physical address space.
Furthermore there may be race conditions with multiple different functions working on a module wide buffer causing incorrect results.
This commit has been backported from: commit 9862b43624 upstream
Fixes: 549b4930f057658dc50d8010e66219233119a4d8 Suggested-by: Pali Rohar pali.rohar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
Why is this a stable patch? What bug does it fix?
confused,
greg k-h