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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 95e57ab2cb ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: claim tpacpi as an official short handle (v1.1)
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>
2008-04-29 09:47:01 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh b59727965d ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: BIOS backlight mode helper (v2.1)
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>
2008-04-29 09:46:59 -04:00
David S. Miller 577f99c1d0 Merge branch 'master' of 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
2008-03-18 00:37:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 2079fcdc06 the scheduled bcm43xx removal
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>
2008-03-13 16:01:04 -04:00
Len Brown 29ea5171cb Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into release 2008-03-13 01:59:53 -04:00
Carlos Corbacho 0881646589 acer-wmi: Fix DSDT path in documentation
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12 16:24:21 -04:00
Randy Dunlap a09a20b526 laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/
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>
2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
Carlos Corbacho 343c00422d acer-wmi: Rename mail LED correctly & remove hardcoded colour
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>
2008-03-11 17:53:24 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 6c231bd5eb ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add tablet-mode reporting
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>
2008-02-16 00:34:06 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh d147da73c9 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: minor hotkey_radio_sw fixes
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>
2008-02-16 00:34:04 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh d0788cfbae ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad-acpi input device documentation
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>
2008-02-16 00:34:02 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh b3ec6f911a ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: issue input events for tablet swivel events
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>
2008-02-16 00:34:01 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 5f24927f48 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: trivial fix to documentation
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>
2008-02-16 00:33:48 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho 16111c7979 acer-wmi - Add documentation
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>
2008-02-09 04:16:07 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho 018a651a9c sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops
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>
2008-02-09 04:15:53 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho f04b7c402b sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptops
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>
2008-02-09 04:15:40 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho f191dc6b55 thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptops
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>
2008-02-09 04:15:23 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho d6ff365577 Documentation - Create laptops sub-directory
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>
2008-02-09 04:14:59 -05:00