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<title>thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.23</title>
<updated>2009-04-18T05:19:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
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<published>2009-04-14T02:44:14+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'thinkpad-acpi' into release</title>
<updated>2009-04-05T05:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
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<published>2009-04-05T05:42:09+00:00</published>
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<title>acer-wmi: Update copyright notice &amp; documentation</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T16:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Corbacho</name>
<email>carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk</email>
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<published>2009-04-04T08:33:39+00:00</published>
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Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not
supported.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho &lt;carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not
supported.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho &lt;carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness support</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
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<published>2009-04-04T04:25:53+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;bug-track@fisher-privat.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;bug-track@fisher-privat.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the fan subdriver</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:52+00:00</published>
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Enhance debugging messages for the fan subdriver.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Enhance debugging messages for the fan subdriver.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:51+00:00</published>
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Enhance debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Enhance debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for rfkill subdrivers</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:50+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: restrict access to some firmware LEDs</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:49+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionality</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:48+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: add new debug helpers and warn of deprecated atts</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T07:14:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-04T04:25:47+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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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 &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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