Plenty of high-profile changes, so it deserves a new version number.
Features added since 0.22:
* Restrict unsafe LEDs
* New race-less brightness control strategy for IBM ThinkPads
* Disclose TGID of driver access from userspace (debug)
* Warn when deprecated functions are used
Other changes:
* Better debug messages in some subdrivers
* Removed "hotkey disable" support, since it breaks the driver
* Dropped "ibm-acpi" alias
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not
supported.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Refactor and redesign the brightness control backend...
In order to fix bugzilla #11750...
Add a new brightness control mode: support direct NVRAM checkpointing
of the backlight level (i.e. store directly to NVRAM without the need
for UCMS calls), and use that together with the EC-based control.
Disallow UCMS+EC, thus avoiding races with the SMM firmware.
Switch the models that define HBRV (EC Brightness Value) in the DSDT
to the new mode. These are: T40-T43, R50-R52, R50e, R51e, X31-X41.
Change the default for all other IBM ThinkPads to UCMS-only. The
Lenovo models already default to UCMS-only.
Reported-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for the fan subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for all rfkill subdrivers in thinkpad-acpi.
Also, log a warning if the deprecated sysfs attributes are in use.
These attributes are going to be removed sometime in 2010.
There is an user-visible side-effect: we now coalesce attempts to
enable/disable bluetooth or WWAN in the procfs interface, instead of
hammering the firmware with multiple requests.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some of the ThinkPad LEDs indicate critical conditions that can cause
data loss or cause hardware damage when ignored (e.g. force-ejecting
a powered up bay; ignoring a failing battery, or empty battery; force-
undocking with the dock buses still active, etc).
On almost all ThinkPads, LED access is write-only, and the firmware
usually does fire-and-forget signaling on them, so you effectively
lose whatever message the firmware was trying to convey to the user
when you override the LED state, without any chance to restore it.
Restrict access to all LEDs that can convey important alarms, or that
could mislead the user into incorrectly operating the hardware. This
will make the Lenovo engineers less unhappy about the whole issue.
Allow users that really want it to still control all LEDs, it is the
unaware user that we have to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The HKEY disable functionality basically cripples the entire event
model of the ThinkPad firmware and of the thinkpad-acpi driver.
Remove this functionality from the driver. HKEY must be enabled at
all times while thinkpad-acpi is loaded, and disabled otherwise.
For sysfs, according to the sysfs ABI and the thinkpad-acpi sysfs
rules of engagement, we will just remove the attributes. This will be
done in two stages: disable their function now, after two kernel
releases, remove the attributes.
For procfs, we call WARN(). If nothing triggers it, I will simply
remove the enable/disable commands entirely in the future along with
the sysfs attributes.
I don't expect much, if any fallout from this. There really isn't any
reason to mess with hotkey_enable or with the enable/disable commands
to /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey, and this has been true for years...
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add a debug helper that discloses the TGID of the userspace task
attempting to access the driver. This is highly useful when dealing
with bug reports, since often the user has no idea that some userspace
application is accessing thinkpad-acpi...
Also add a helper to log warnings about sysfs attributes that are
deprecated.
Use the new helpers to issue deprecation warnings for bluetooth_enable
and wwan_enabled, that have been deprecated for a while, now.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some cleanups to the documentation of the driver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
It is about time to bump up the version.
Features added since 0.21: fan suspend/resume support, preserve radio
state across power off (for some radio types), built-in UWB radio
rfkill support and thermal alarm events support.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add rfkill support for USB UWB radio devices on very recent ThinkPad
laptop models.
The new subdriver is moslty a trimmed down copy of the wwan subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Update documentation to reflect the new location of the
thinkpad-acpi driver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written).
So it is:
"an hour" (spoken vowel)
but
"a uniform" (spoken 'j')
Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Put some information (and pointers to more) into the kernel's doc tree,
describing briefly the interface to the kernel's disk head unloading
facility. Information about how to set up a complete shock protection
system under GNU/Linux can be found on the web and is referenced
accordingly.
v3:
Here is some final polish including various spelling corrections
pointed out by Grant Grundler and Peter Moulder. Also, I have added some
information about the timing constraints related to disk head parking.
The patch looks more impressive than it really is and I think it would
be alright just to incorporate it into the original patch so as not to
clutter up the git log.
Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
The WWAN radio control has been working well for over three years,
and is no longer experimental.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Add a read/write rfkill interface to the bluetooth radio switch on the
bluetooth submodule, and one for the wireless wan radio switch to the wan
submodule.
Since rfkill does care for when a switch changes state, use WLSW
notifications to also check if the WWAN or Bluetooth switches did not
change state (due to them being slaves of WLSW in firmware/hardware, but
that reality not being always properly exported by the thinkpad firmware).
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL in thinkpad-acpi code and docs, following
5adad01339 "Input: rename SW_RADIO to
SW_RFKILL_ALL".
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Full LED sysfs support, and the rest of the assorted minor fixes and
enhancements are a good reason to checkpoint a new version...
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Matt LaPlante
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Len Brown
Carlos Corbacho
Frederik Schwarzer
Elias Oltmanns
Jeremy Fitzhardinge