linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers
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
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acorn/char
acpi [CPUFREQ] change cpu freq tables to per_cpu variables 2008-04-28 15:05:44 -04:00
amba
ata typo in sata_fsl 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
atm drivers: atm, char fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:29:18 -07:00
auxdisplay
base bus_remove_device: be more careful about incomplete initialization 2008-04-22 17:40:36 -07:00
block return pfn from direct_access, for XIP 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
bluetooth hci_usb: remove code obfuscation 2008-04-19 18:17:26 -07:00
cdrom cdrom: use kmalloced buffers instead of buffers on stack 2008-04-21 09:50:08 +02:00
char drivers: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
clocksource
connector
cpufreq [CPUFREQ] fix show_trans_table 2008-04-28 15:05:44 -04:00
cpuidle
crypto [CRYPTO] padlock-aes: Use generic setkey function 2008-04-21 10:19:34 +08:00
dca
dio
dma DMA engine: typo fixes 2008-04-21 22:38:45 +00:00
edac
eisa
firewire Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
firmware drivers: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
gpio gpiochip_reserve() 2008-04-28 08:58:34 -07:00
hid usbhid endianness annotations and fixes 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
hwmon
i2c i2c: Fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-22 22:16:49 +02:00
ide siimage: coding style cleanup (take 2) 2008-04-28 23:44:44 +02:00
ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2008-04-25 12:24:06 -07:00
infiniband RDMA/nes: Remove volatile qualifier from struct nes_hw_cq.cq_vbase 2008-04-23 11:55:45 -07:00
input usb input endianness annotations and fixes 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
isdn isdn: rename CONFIG_AVMB1_COMPAT to not look like a Kconfig variable 2008-04-28 08:58:34 -07:00
leds leds: Add default-on trigger 2008-04-25 00:06:52 +01:00
lguest drivers: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:16:32 -04:00
macintosh mac-hid: fix build after lockdep annotation 2008-04-25 18:57:09 -07:00
mca
md drivers/md: use time_before, time_before_eq, etc 2008-04-28 08:58:42 -07:00
media media: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
memstick memstick: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
message SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:33 -07:00
mfd mfd: use shorter set_current_state() 2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
misc ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: BIOS backlight mode helper (v2.1) 2008-04-29 09:46:59 -04:00
mmc mmc: sdio_ops.c should #include "sdio_ops.h" 2008-04-18 20:05:33 +02:00
mtd drivers: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
net Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2008-04-28 10:51:43 -07:00
nubus
of [POWERPC] drivers/of/of_i2c.c: Add MODULE_LICENSE 2008-04-24 20:58:01 +10:00
oprofile oprofile: change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable 2008-04-28 08:58:31 -07:00
parisc PCI: remove parisc consumer of the pci global_list 2008-04-20 21:47:01 -07:00
parport avr32: don't offer PARPORT_PC 2008-04-19 20:40:10 -04:00
pci drivers: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
pcmcia ARM: always select HAVE_IDE 2008-04-28 23:44:43 +02:00
pnp PNP: use dev_printk for quirk messages 2008-04-28 08:58:43 -07:00
power
ps3
rapidio
rtc rtc: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
s390 return pfn from direct_access, for XIP 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
sbus
scsi scsi: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings 2008-04-28 17:31:13 -07:00
serial Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2008-04-28 10:51:43 -07:00
sh
sn
spi spi: spi_imx updates 2008-04-28 08:58:31 -07:00
ssb ssb: Fix all-ones boardflags 2008-04-23 21:25:35 -04:00
tc
telephony
thermal
uio UIO: hold a reference to the device's owner while the device is open 2008-04-19 19:10:18 -07:00
usb drivers/usb annotations and fixes 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
video Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00
virtio
w1
watchdog Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
xen xen: add balloon driver 2008-04-24 23:57:33 +02:00
zorro
Kconfig xen: add balloon driver 2008-04-24 23:57:33 +02:00
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