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2007-09-17ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.16Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Name it thinkpad-acpi version 0.16 to avoid any confusion with some 0.15 thinkpad-acpi development snapshots and backports that had input layer support, but no hotkey_report_mode support. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-09-17ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: revert new 2.6.23 CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED optionHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
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 <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-11ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix sysfs paths in documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The documentation used "thinkpad-acpi" to refer to the directories in sysfs, while it should have been using "thinkpad_acpi". Thanks to Hugh Dickins for the error report. I wish I could just call the module and everything else by the proper name with the "-", instead of using these ugly translations to "_". Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.15Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Name it thinkpad-acpi version 0.15. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make EC-based thermal readings non-experimentalHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Reading the 16 thermal sensors directly from the EC has been stable for about one year, in all supported ThinkPad models. Remove its "experimental" label. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: react to Lenovo ThinkPad differences in hot keyHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Lenovo ThinkPads have a slightly different key map layout from IBM ThinkPads (fn+f2 and fn+f3 are swapped). Knowing which one we are dealing with, we can properly set a few more hot keys up by default. Also, export the correct vendor in the input device, as that information might be useful to userspace. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: allow use of CMOS NVRAM for brightness controlHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
It appears that Lenovo decided to break the EC brightness control interface in a weird way in their latest BIOSes. Fortunately, the old CMOS NVRAM interface works just fine in such BIOSes. Add a module parameter that allows the user to select which strategy to use for brightness control: EC, NVRAM, or both. By default, do both (which is the way thinkpad-acpi used to work until now) on IBM ThinkPads, and use NVRAM only on Lenovo ThinkPads. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to input layerHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The change in the way hotkey events are handled by default, and the use of the input layer for the hotkey events are important enough features to warrant increasing the major field of the sysfs interface version. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make the input event mode the defaultHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Make the input layer the default way to deal with thinkpad-acpi hot keys, but add a kernel config option to retain the old way of doing things. This means we map a lot more keys to useful stuff by default, and also that we enable hot key handling by default on driver load (like Windows does). The documentation for proper use of this resource is also updated. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriverHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add input device support to the hotkey subdriver. Hot keys that have a valid keycode mapping are reported through the input layer if the input device is open. Otherwise, they will be reported as ACPI events, as they were before. Scan codes are reported (using EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events) along with EV_KEY KEY_UNKNOWN events. For backwards compatibility purposes, hot keys that used to be reported through ACPI events are not mapped to anything meaningful by default. Userspace is supposed to remap them if it wants to use the input device for hot key reporting. This patch is based on a patch by Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update CMOS commands documentationHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The CMOS set of commands is often just used to keep the CMOS NVRAM in sync with whatever the ACPI BIOS has been doing in modern ThinkPads. In older ThinkPads, it actually carried out real actions. Document this. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to hotkeyHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The change in the size of the hotkey mask, the hability to report the keys that use the higher bits, and the addition of the hotkey_radio_sw attribute are important enough features to warrant increasing the minor field of the sysfs interface version. Also, document a bit better how and when the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface version will be updated. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export to sysfs the state of the radio slider switchHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Some ThinkPad models, notably the T60 and X60, have a slider switch to enable and disable the radios. The switch has the capability of force-disabling the radios in hardware on most models, and it is supposed to affect all radios (WLAN, WWAN, BlueTooth). Export the switch state as a sysfs attribute, on ThinkPads where it is available. Thanks to Henning Schild for asking for this feature, and for tracking down the EC register that holds the radio switch state. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Henning Schild <henning@wh9.tu-dresden.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export hotkey maximum masksHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The firmware knows how many hot keys it supports, so export this information in a sysfs attribute. And the driver knows which keys are always handled by the firmware in all known ThinkPad models too, so export this information as well in a sysfs attribute. Unless you know which events need to be handled in a passive way, do *not* enable hotkeys that are always handled by the firmware. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: enable more hotkeysHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Revise ACPI HKEY functionality to better interface with the firmware, and enable up to 32 regular hotkeys, instead of just 16 of them. Ouch. This takes care of most keys one used to have to do CMOS NVRAM polling on, and should drop the need for tpb, thinkpad-keys, and other such 5Hz NVRAM polling power vampires on most modern ThinkPads ;-) And, just to add insult to injury, this was sort of working since forever through the procfs interface, but nobody noticed or tried an echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey and told me it would generate weird events. ARGH! Thanks to Richard Hughes for kicking off the work that ended up with this discovery, and to Matthew Garret for calling my attention to the fact that newer ThinkPads were indeed generating ACPI GPEs when such hot keys were pressed. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-21ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update information on T43 thermal sensor 0xc1Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Update the documentation with some extra data on the T43 thermal sensor @0xc1, thanks to Alexey Fisher. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-31ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groupsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in order to get the attributes more organized. This proved to be a really bad design decision. Maybe if attribute groups were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have been so bad. This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the documentation. These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to maintain. 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 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>