From 132ce09123755ec5e3d3a8ae22f4f753c3baac97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:08:30 -0300 Subject: ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add debug mode Add a debug mode parameter and verbose debug mode Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt index af18d294cf1..82fd8228fd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -699,3 +699,16 @@ for example: modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable +Enabling debugging output +------------------------- + +The module takes a debug paramater which can be used to selectively +enable various classes of debugging output, for example: + + modprobe ibm_acpi debug=0xffff + +will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so +to enable more than one output class, just add their values. + +There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging +information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. -- cgit v1.2.3