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2009-04-05Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into releaseLen Brown
2009-04-04acer-wmi: Update copyright notice & documentationCarlos Corbacho
Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not supported. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Refactor and redesign the brightness control backend... In order to fix bugzilla #11750... Add a new brightness control mode: support direct NVRAM checkpointing of the backlight level (i.e. store directly to NVRAM without the need for UCMS calls), and use that together with the EC-based control. Disallow UCMS+EC, thus avoiding races with the SMM firmware. Switch the models that define HBRV (EC Brightness Value) in the DSDT to the new mode. These are: T40-T43, R50-R52, R50e, R51e, X31-X41. Change the default for all other IBM ThinkPads to UCMS-only. The Lenovo models already default to UCMS-only. Reported-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the fan subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Enhance debugging messages for the fan subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the hotkey subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Enhance debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for rfkill subdriversHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Enhance debugging messages for all rfkill subdrivers in thinkpad-acpi. Also, log a warning if the deprecated sysfs attributes are in use. These attributes are going to be removed sometime in 2010. There is an user-visible side-effect: we now coalesce attempts to enable/disable bluetooth or WWAN in the procfs interface, instead of hammering the firmware with multiple requests. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: restrict access to some firmware LEDsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Some of the ThinkPad LEDs indicate critical conditions that can cause data loss or cause hardware damage when ignored (e.g. force-ejecting a powered up bay; ignoring a failing battery, or empty battery; force- undocking with the dock buses still active, etc). On almost all ThinkPads, LED access is write-only, and the firmware usually does fire-and-forget signaling on them, so you effectively lose whatever message the firmware was trying to convey to the user when you override the LED state, without any chance to restore it. Restrict access to all LEDs that can convey important alarms, or that could mislead the user into incorrectly operating the hardware. This will make the Lenovo engineers less unhappy about the whole issue. Allow users that really want it to still control all LEDs, it is the unaware user that we have to worry about. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionalityHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The HKEY disable functionality basically cripples the entire event model of the ThinkPad firmware and of the thinkpad-acpi driver. Remove this functionality from the driver. HKEY must be enabled at all times while thinkpad-acpi is loaded, and disabled otherwise. For sysfs, according to the sysfs ABI and the thinkpad-acpi sysfs rules of engagement, we will just remove the attributes. This will be done in two stages: disable their function now, after two kernel releases, remove the attributes. For procfs, we call WARN(). If nothing triggers it, I will simply remove the enable/disable commands entirely in the future along with the sysfs attributes. I don't expect much, if any fallout from this. There really isn't any reason to mess with hotkey_enable or with the enable/disable commands to /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey, and this has been true for years... Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: add new debug helpers and warn of deprecated attsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add a debug helper that discloses the TGID of the userspace task attempting to access the driver. This is highly useful when dealing with bug reports, since often the user has no idea that some userspace application is accessing thinkpad-acpi... Also add a helper to log warnings about sysfs attributes that are deprecated. Use the new helpers to issue deprecation warnings for bluetooth_enable and wwan_enabled, that have been deprecated for a while, now. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04thinkpad-acpi: documentation cleanupHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Some cleanups to the documentation of the driver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-15ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.22Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
It is about time to bump up the version. Features added since 0.21: fan suspend/resume support, preserve radio state across power off (for some radio types), built-in UWB radio rfkill support and thermal alarm events support. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-15ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add UWB radio supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add rfkill support for USB UWB radio devices on very recent ThinkPad laptop models. The new subdriver is moslty a trimmed down copy of the wwan subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-15ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update documents for the new locationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Update documentation to reflect the new location of the thinkpad-acpi driver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-06trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and commentsFrederik Schwarzer
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written). So it is: "an hour" (spoken vowel) but "a uniform" (spoken 'j') Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-23Merge branch 'linus' into testLen Brown
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c drivers/acpi/Kconfig drivers/pnp/Makefile drivers/pnp/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-13ata: Add documentation for hard disk shock protection interface (v3)Elias Oltmanns
Put some information (and pointers to more) into the kernel's doc tree, describing briefly the interface to the kernel's disk head unloading facility. Information about how to set up a complete shock protection system under GNU/Linux can be found on the web and is referenced accordingly. v3: Here is some final polish including various spelling corrections pointed out by Grant Grundler and Peter Moulder. Also, I have added some information about the timing constraints related to disk head parking. The patch looks more impressive than it really is and I think it would be alright just to incorporate it into the original patch so as not to clutter up the git log. Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-10-08acer-wmi: Remove wireless and bluetooth sysfs entriesCarlos Corbacho
These are now replaced by the rfkill interface. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-08-28ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: wan radio control is not experimentalJeremy Fitzhardinge
The WWAN radio control has been working well for over three years, and is no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.21Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
rfkill support deserves a new version checkpoint... Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
2008-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add bluetooth and WWAN rfkill supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add a read/write rfkill interface to the bluetooth radio switch on the bluetooth submodule, and one for the wireless wan radio switch to the wan submodule. Since rfkill does care for when a switch changes state, use WLSW notifications to also check if the WWAN or Bluetooth switches did not change state (due to them being slaves of WLSW in firmware/hardware, but that reality not being always properly exported by the thinkpad firmware). Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-16acer-wmi: Remove LED colour comment from documentationCarlos Corbacho
This should have been removed when the colour was removed from the LED device name. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-06-11thinkpad-acpi: SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL renameHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL in thinkpad-acpi code and docs, following 5adad0133907790c50283bf03271d920d6897043 "Input: rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL". Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.20Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Full LED sysfs support, and the rest of the assorted minor fixes and enhancements are a good reason to checkpoint a new version... Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use uppercase for "LED" on user documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Change all occourences of the "led" word to full uppercase in user documentation. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs led class support to thinkpad leds (v3.2)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add a sysfs led class interface to the led subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs led class support for thinklight (v3.1)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add a sysfs led class interface to the thinklight (light subdriver). Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: claim tpacpi as an official short handle (v1.1)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the kernel has size limitations, so "thinkpad-acpi" ends up eating up too much real estate. We were using "tpacpi" in symbols already, but this shorthand was not visible to userland. Document that the driver will use tpacpi as a short hand where necessary, and use it to name the kernel thread for NVRAM polling (now named "ktpacpi_nvramd"). Also, register a module alias with the shorthand. One can refer to the module using the shorthand name. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: BIOS backlight mode helper (v2.1)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Lenovo ThinkPads with generic ACPI backlight level control can be easily set to react to keyboard brightness key presses in a more predictable way than what they do when in "DOS / bootloader" mode after Linux brings up the ACPI interface. The switch to the ACPI backlight mode in the firmware is designed to be safe to use only as an one way trapdoor. One is not to force the firmware to switch back to "DOS/bootloader" mode except by rebooting. The mode switch itself is performed by calling any of the ACPI _BCL methods at least once. When in ACPI mode, the backlight firmware just issues (standard) events for the brightness up/down hot key presses along with the non-standard HKEY events which thinkpad-acpi traps, and doesn't touch the hardware. thinkpad-acpi will: 1. Place the ThinkPad firmware in ACPI backlight control mode if one is available 2. Suppress HKEY backlight change notifications by default to avoid double-reporting when ACPI video is loaded when the ThinkPad is in ACPI backlight control mode 3. Urge the user to load the ACPI video driver The user is free to use either the ACPI video driver to get the brightness key events, or to override the thinkpad-acpi default hotkey mask to get them from thinkpad-acpi as well (this will result in duplicate events if ACPI video is loaded, so let's hope distros won't screw this up). Provided userspace is sane, all should work (and *keep* working), which is more that can be said about the non-ACPI mode of the new Lenovo ThinkPad BIOSes when coupled to current userspace and X.org drivers. Full guidelines for backlight hot key reporting and use of the thinkpad-acpi backlight interface have been added to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
2008-03-13the scheduled bcm43xx removalAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-03-12acer-wmi: Fix DSDT path in documentationCarlos Corbacho
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/Randy Dunlap
Move laptop-mode.txt into the laptops/ sub-directory to consolidate laptop doc files there. Update references to the file's location. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-11acer-wmi: Rename mail LED correctly & remove hardcoded colourCarlos Corbacho
The mail LED name for acer-wmi currently hardcodes in the colour as green. This is wrong, since many of the newer laptops now come with an orange LED, and we have no way of telling what colour is used on a given system. Also, rename the mail LED to be inline with the current recommendations of the LED class documentation. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-16ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add tablet-mode reportingHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
A quick study of the 0x5009/0x500A HKEY event on the X61t DSDT revealed the existence of the EC HTAB register (EC 0x0f, bit 7), and a compare with the X41t DSDT shows that HKEY.MHKG can be used to verify if the ThinkPad is tablet-capable (MHKG present), and in tablet mode (bit 3 of MHKG return is set). Add an attribute to report this information, "hotkey_tablet_mode". This attribute has poll()/select() support, and can be used along with EV_SW SW_TABLET_MODE to hook userspace to tablet events. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-16ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: minor hotkey_radio_sw fixesHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Fixes some minor points in the radio switch code and docs. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-16ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad-acpi input device documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Fix a few spelling errors, and also document the EV_SW events thinkpad-acpi can issue. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-16ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: issue input events for tablet swivel eventsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Issue EV_SW SW_TABLET_MODE events for HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A on the X41t/X60t/X61t. As usual, we suppress the HKEY events on the netlink interface to avoid sending duplicate events to userspace. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-16ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: trivial fix to documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Fix a stray ibm-acpi that should have been replaced with thinkpad-acpi. Thanks to Damjan <gdamjan@mail.net.mk> for noticing this one. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09acer-wmi - Add documentationCarlos Corbacho
Add some initial documentation detailing what acer-wmi is, and how to use it. Update the Kconfig entry with a reference to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to sony-laptop.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptopsCarlos Corbacho
Also update references to thinkpad-acpi.txt in Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09Documentation - Create laptops sub-directoryCarlos Corbacho
There are currently various laptop drivers floating about with no central place for their documentation, which is currently scattered around the top level Documentation/ directory. So, as a first step, lets create a Documentation sub-directory, and update the relevant index files. The work of then moving the existing laptop driver related documentation will then be handled later. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>