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2007-04-28ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to wan and bluetooth subdriversHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add support to sysfs to the wan and bluetooth subdrivers. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-28ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to hotkey subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add the hotkey sysfs support. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-28ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve fan control documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Improve fan control documentation and fix one mistake. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-28ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add a fan-control feature master toggleHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Len Brown considers that an active by default fan control interface in laptops may be too close to giving users enough rope. There is a good chance he is quite correct on this, especially if someone decides to use that interface in applets and users are not aware of its risks. This patch adds a master switch to thinkpad-acpi that enables or disables the entire fan-control feature as a module parameter: "fan_control". It defaults to disabled. Set it to non-zero to enable fan control. Also, the patch removes the expermiental status from fan control, since it is stable enough to not be called experimental, and the master switch makes it safe enough to do so. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update brightness sysfs interface supportHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Update the brightness sysfs interface (done through the backlight class) to be in line with the rest of the thinkpad-acpi driver. This renames the incorrect, un-obvious, and clash-prone name of "ibm" for the backlight device to a much more fitting and descriptive "thinkpad_screen". This is something I wanted to do for quite a while... Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to the cmos command subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add sysfs attributes to send ThinkPad CMOS commands. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to fan subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Export sysfs attributes to monitor and control the internal thinkpad fan (some thinkpads have more than one fan, but thinkpad-acpi doesn't support the second fan yet). The sysfs interface follows the hwmon design guide for fan devices. Also, fix some stray "thermal" files in the fan procfs description that have been there forever, and officially support "full-speed" as the name for the PWM-disabled state of the fan controller to keep it in line with the hwmon interface. It is much better a name for that mode than the unobvious "disengaged" anyway. Change the procfs interface to also accept full-speed as a fan level, but still report it as disengaged for backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to the thermal subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Export thinkpad thermal sensors to sysfs, following the hwmon specification for thermal monitoring sensors. ThinkPad thermal monitoring is done by the EC. Sensors can show up or disappear at runtime when they are inside hotswappable hardware, such as batteries. Sensors that are not available return -ENXIO when accessed. Up to 16 thermal sensors are supported on new firmware (but nobody has reported a ThinkPad with more than 12 sensors so far), and 8 sensors are supported on older firmware. Thermal sensor mapping is model-specific. Precision varies, it is 1 degree Celcius on new ThinkPads, but higher on some older models. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: driver sysfs conversionHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add the sysfs attributes for the platform driver. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-25ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: register with the device modelHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Register thinkpad-acpi platform driver and platform device for the device model. Also register the platform device with the hwmon class. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad detectionHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Improve the detection of ThinkPads, so as to reduce the chances of false positives. Since this could potentially add false negatives on the very old models, add a module parameter to force the detection of a thinkpad. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add subdriver debug statementsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add debug messages to the subdriver initialization and exit code. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-04-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add debug modeHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add a debug mode parameter and verbose debug mode Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-03-30ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: cleanup after renameHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Cleanup documentation, driver strings and other misc stuff, now that the driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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>