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2007-03-30ACPI: ibm-acpi: rename driver to thinkpad-acpiHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Rename the ibm-acpi driver to thinkpad-acpi. ThinkPads are not even made by IBM anymore, so it is high time to rename the driver... The name thinkpad-acpi was used sometime ago by a thinkpad-specific hotkey driver by Erik Rigtorp, around the 2.6.8-2.6.10 time frame. The driver apparently never got merged into mainline (it did make some trips through -mm). ibm-acpi was merged soon after, making its debut in 2.6.10. The reuse of the thinkpad-acpi name shouldn't be a problem as far as user confusion goes, as Erik's thinkpad-acpi apparently didn't get widespread use in the Linux ThinkPad community and most hits for thinkpad-acpi in google point to ibm-acpi anyway. Erik, if you read this, please consider the reuse of the thinkpad-acpi name as a compliment to your effort to make ThinkPads more useful to all of us. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-03-25ACPI: ibm-acpi: update documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Update documentation header, and relocate a hunk of text that was missplaced. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-03-25ACPI: ibm-acpi: kill trailing whitespaceHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
I shall protect the ibm-acpi city against the invasion of the barbarian blanks! To the unforgiving jaws of sed s/[[:blank:]]\+$// they go! Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-12-07ACPI: ibm-acpi: implement fan watchdog commandHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
This patch implements a fan control safety watchdog, by request of the authors of userspace fan control scripts. When the watchdog timer expires, the equivalent action of a "fan enable" command is executed. The watchdog timer is reset at every reception of a fan control command that could change the state of the fan itself. This command is meant to be used by userspace fan control daemons, to make sure the fan is never left set to an unsafe level because of userspace problems. Users of the X31/X40/X41 "speed" command are on their own, the current implementation of "speed" is just too incomplete to be used safely, anyway. Better to never use it, and just use the "level" command instead. The watchdog is programmed using echo "watchdog <number>" > fan, where number is the number of seconds to wait before doing an "enable", and zero disables the watchdog. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
2006-12-07ACPI: ibm-acpi: fix and extend fan control functionsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
This patch extend fan control functions, implementing enable/disable for all write access modes, implementing level control for all level-capable write access modes. The patch also updates the documentation, explaining levels auto and disengaged. ABI changes: 1. Support level 0 as an equivalent to disable 2. Add support for level auto and level disengaged when doing EC 0x2f fan control 3. Support enable/disable for all level-based write access modes 4. Add support for level command on FANS thinkpads, as per thinkwiki reports Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
2006-12-07ACPI: ibm-acpi: document thermal sensor locations for the A31Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
The A31 has a very atypical layout, so I separated its thermal sensors location in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
2006-12-07ACPI: ibm-acpi: Implement direct-ec-access thermal reading modes for up to ↵Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
16 sensors This patch extends ibm-acpi to support reading thermal sensors directly through ACPI EC register access. It uses a DMI match to detect ThinkPads with a new-style embedded controller, that are known to have forward- compatible register maps and use 0x00 to fill in non-used registers and export thermal sensors at EC offsets 0x78-7F and 0xC0-C7. Direct ACPI EC register access is implemented for 8-sensor and 16-sensor new-style ThinkPad controller firmwares as an experimental feature. The code does some limited sanity checks on the temperatures read through EC access, and will default to the old ACPI TMP0-7 mode if anything is amiss. Userspace ABI is not changed for 8 sensors, but /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal is extended for 16 sensors if the firmware supports 16 sensors. A documentation update is also provided. The information about the ThinkPad register map was determined by studying ibm-acpi "ecdump" output from various ThinkPad models, submitted by subscribers of the linux-thinkpad mailinglist. Futher information was gathered from the DSDT tables, as they describe the EC register map in recent ThinkPads. DSDT source shows that TMP0-7 access and direct register access are actually the same thing on these firmwares, but unfortunately IBM never did update their DSDT EC register map to export TMP8-TMP15 for the second range of sensors. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
2006-10-14ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentationPavel Machek
As this module is now part of the kernel tree, there is no need for instructions on how to download it and build an external module. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-10-14ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature.Stefan Schmidt
Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-10-14ACPI: ibm_acpi: Update documentation for brightness and volume.Stefan Schmidt
Document the change of the experimental flag for brightness and volume. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-08-25[ACPI] IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver v0.12Borislav Deianov
http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ Signed-off-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!