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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>