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2009-12-26thinkpad-acpi: update volume subdriver documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-16thinkpad-acpi: bump version to 0.24Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: basic ALSA mixer support (v2)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add the basic ALSA mixer functionality. The mixer is event-driven, and will work fine on IBM ThinkPads. I expect Lenovo ThinkPads will cause some trouble with the event interface. Heavily based on work by Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> and ideas from Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: disable volume controlHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Disable volume control by default. It can be enabled at module load time by a module parameter (volume_control=1). The audio control mixer that thinkpad-acpi interacts with is fully functional without any drivers, and operated by hotkeys. The idea behind the console audio control is that the human operator is the only one that can interact with it. The ThinkVantage suite in Windows does not allow any software-based overrides, and only does OSD (on-screen-display) functions. The Linux driver will, with the addition of the ALSA interface, try to follow and enforce the ThinkVantage UI design: The user is supposed to use the keyboard hotkeys to interact with the console audio control. The kernel and the desktop environment is supposed to cooperate to provide proper user feedback through on-screen-display functions. Distros are urged to not to enable volume control by default. Enabling this must be a local admin's decision. This is the reason why there is no Kconfig option. Keep in mind that all ThinkPads have a normal, main mixer (AC97 or HDA) for regular software-based audio control. We are not talking about that mixer here. Advanced users are, of course, free to enable volume control and do as they please. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: support MUTE-only ThinkPadsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Lenovo removed the extra mixer since the T61 and thereabouts. Newer Lenovo models only have the mute gate function, and leave the volume control to the HDA mixer. Until a way to automatically query the firmware about its audio control capabilities is discovered (there might not be any), use a white/black list. We will likely need to ask T60 (old and new model) and Z60/Z61 users whether they have volume control to populate the black/white list. Meanwhile, provide a volume_capabilities parameter that can be used to override the defaults. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-15thinkpad-acpi: volume subdriver rewriteHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
I don't trust the coupled EC writes and SMI calls the current volume control code does very much, although it is exactly what the IBM DSDTs seem to do (they never do more than a single step though). Change the driver to stop issuing SMIs, and just drive the EC directly to the desired level (DSDTs seem to confirm this will work even on very old models like the 570 and 600e/x). We checkpoint directly to NVRAM (this can be turned off) at suspend/shutdown/driver unload, which from what I can see in tbp, should also work on every ThinkPad. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Lorne Applebaum <lorne.applebaum@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-09thinkpad-acpi: issue backlight class eventsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Take advantage of the new events capabilities of the backlight class to notify userspace of backlight changes. This depends on "backlight: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes", by Matthew Garrett. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'thinkpad-2.6.32-part2' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-20thinkpad-acpi: hotkey event driver updateHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Update the HKEY event driver to: 1. Handle better the second-gen firmware, which has no HKEY mask support but does report FN+F3, FN+F4 and FN+F12 without the need for NVRAM polling. a) always make the mask-related attributes available in sysfs; b) use DMI quirks to detect the second-gen firmware; c) properly report that FN+F3, FN+F4 and FN+F12 are enabled, and available even on mask-less second-gen firmware; 2. Decouple the issuing of hotkey events towards userspace from their reception from the firmware. ALSA mixer and brightness event reporting support will need this feature. 3. Clean up the mess in the hotkey driver a great deal. It is still very convoluted, and wants a full refactoring into a proper event API interface, but that is not going to happen today. 4. Fully reset firmware interface on resume (restore hotkey mask and status). 5. Stop losing polled events for no good reason when changing the mask and poll frequencies. We will still lose them when the hotkey_source_mask is changed, as well as any that happened between driver suspend and driver resume. The hotkey subdriver now has the notion of user-space-visible hotkey event mask, as well as of the set of "hotkey" events the driver needs (because brightness/volume change reports are not just keypress reports in most ThinkPad models). With this rewrite, the ABI level is bumped to 0x020500 should userspace need to know it is dealing with the updated hotkey subdriver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-20thinkpad-acpi: drop HKEY event 0x5010Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
HKEY event 0x5010 is useless to us: old ThinkPads don't issue it. Newer ThinkPads won't issue it anymore. And all ThinkPads issue 0x1010 and 0x1011 events. Just silently drop it instead of sending it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'asus' into releaseLen Brown
2009-09-19thinkpad-acpi: Fix procfs hotkey reset commandHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
echo "reset" > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey should do something non-useless, so instead of setting it to Fn+F2, Fn+F3, Fn+F5, set it to hotkey_recommended_mask. It is not like it will survive for much longer, anyway. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-19thinkpad-acpi: deprecate hotkey_bios_maskHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Some analysis of the ACPI DSDTs shows that the HKEY pre-enabled mask is always 0x80c (FN+F3,FN+F4 and FN+F12), which are the hotkeys that the second gen of HKEY firmware supported (the first gen didn't report any hotkeys, the second reported these tree hotkeys but had no mask support, and the third added mask support). So, this is probably some sort of backwards compatibility with older versions of the IBM ThinkVantage suite. We have no use for that, and I know of exactly ZERO users of that attribute, anyway. Start the process of getting rid of it. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28asus-laptop: document the moduleCorentin Chary
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-01thinkpad-acpi: remove dock and bay subdriversHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The standard ACPI dock driver can handle the hotplug bays and docks of the ThinkPads just fine (including batteries) as of 2.6.27, and the code in thinkpad-acpi for the dock and bay subdrivers is currently broken anyway... Userspace needs some love to support the two-stage ejection nicely, but it is simple enough to do through udev rules (you don't even need HAL) so this wouldn't justify fixing the dock and bay subdrivers, either. That leaves warm-swap bays (_EJ3) support for thinkpad-acpi, as well as support for the weird dock of the model 570, but since such support has never left the "experimental" stage, it is also not a strong enough reason to find a way to fix this code. Users of ThinkPads with warm-swap bays are urged to request that _EJ3 support be added to the regular ACPI dock driver, if such feature is indeed useful for them. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-24Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release
2009-06-18thinkpad-acpi: support the second fan on the X61Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Support reading the tachometer of the auxiliary fan of a X60/X61. It was found out by sheer luck, that bit 0 of EC register 0x31 (formely HBRV) selects which fan is active for tachometer readings through EC 0x84/0x085: 0 for fan1, 1 for fan2. Many thanks to Christoph Kl??nter, to Whoopie, and to weasel, who helped confirm that behaviour. Fan control through EC HFSP applies to both fans equally, regardless of the state of bit 0 of EC 0x31. That matches the way the DSDT uses HFSP. In order to better support the secondary fan, export a second tachometer over hwmon, and add defensive measures to make sure we are reading the correct tachometer. Support for the second fan is whitelist-based, as I have not found anything obvious to look for in the DSDT to detect the presence of the second fan. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-18thinkpad-acpi: forbid the use of HBRV on Lenovo ThinkPadsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Forcing thinkpad-acpi to do EC-based brightness control (HBRV) on a X61 has very... interesting effects, instead of doing nothing (since it doesn't have EC-based backlight control), it causes "weirdness" in the fan tachometer readings, for example. This means the EC register that used to be HBRV has been reused by Lenovo for something else, but they didn't remove it from the DSDT. Make sure the documentation reflects this data, and forbid the user from forcing the driver to access HBRV on Lenovo ThinkPads. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-17thinkpad-acpi: enhance led supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add support for extra LEDs on recent ThinkPads, and avoid registering with the led class the LEDs which are not available for a given ThinkPad model. All non-restricted LEDs are always available through the procfs interface, as the firmware doesn't care if an attempt is made to access an invalid LED. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-18thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number. Features added since 0.22: * Restrict unsafe LEDs * New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads * Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug) * Warn when deprecated functions are used Other changes: * Better debug messages in some subdrivers * Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver * Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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