From ff80f1370f2eff7dd7a828cf2416bf7be697247e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:13:15 -0300 Subject: ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: revert new 2.6.23 CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED option Revert new 2.6.23 CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED Kconfig option because it would create a legacy we don't want to support. CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED was added to try to fix an issue that is now moot with the addition of the netlink ACPI event report interface to the ACPI core. Now that ACPI core can send events over netlink, we can use a different strategy to keep backwards compatibility with older userspace, without the need for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED games. And it arrived before CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED made it to a stable mainline kernel, even, which is Good. This patch is in sync with some changes to thinkpad-acpi backports, that will keep things sane for userspace across different combinations of kernel versions, thinkpad-acpi backports (or the lack thereof), and userspace capabilities: Unless a module parameter is used, thinkpad-acpi will now behave in such a way that it will work well (by default) with userspace that still uses only the old ACPI procfs event interface and doesn't care for thinkpad-acpi input devices. It will also always work well with userspace that has been updated to use both the thinkpad-acpi input devices, and ACPI core netlink event interface, regardless of any module parameter. The module parameter was added to allow thinkpad-acpi to work with userspace that has been partially updated to use thinkpad-acpi input devices, but not the new ACPI core netlink event interface. To use this mode of hot key reporting, one has to specify the hotkey_report_mode=2 module parameter. The thinkpad-acpi driver exports the value of hotkey_report_mode through sysfs, as well. thinkpad-acpi backports to older kernels, that do not support the new ACPI core netlink interface, have code to allow userspace to switch hotkey_report_mode at runtime through sysfs. This capability will not be provided in mainline thinkpad-acpi as it is not needed there. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Richard Hughes Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/misc/Kconfig | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/misc/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig index a26655881e6..73e248fb2ff 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig @@ -202,25 +202,5 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI_BAY If you are not sure, say Y here. -config THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED - bool "Enable input layer support by default" - depends on THINKPAD_ACPI - default n - ---help--- - This option enables thinkpad-acpi hot key handling over the input - layer at driver load time. When it is unset, the driver does not - enable hot key handling by default, and also starts up with a mostly - empty keymap. - - This option should be enabled if you have a new enough HAL or other - userspace support that properly handles the thinkpad-acpi event - device. It auto-tunes the hot key support to those reported by the - firmware and enables it automatically. - - If unsure, say N here to retain the old behaviour of ibm-acpi, and - thinkpad-acpi up to kernel 2.6.21: userspace will have to enable and - set up the thinkpad-acpi hot key handling using the sysfs interace - after loading the driver. - endif # MISC_DEVICES -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2