[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.14-20070701 available in sf.net

[Takis Diakoumis]

Hi

i just compiled and installed kernel version 2.6.21.6 on my R52
(1858A19). i applied thinkpad-acpi-0.14-20070701_v2.6.21.5. 

before this i had kernel 2.6.21.1 and
thinkpad-acpi-0.14.20070428_v2.6.21.1 applied.

i don't really leverage all the features of the driver anyway, but what
i did notice was that the video (Fn-F7) and radio (Fn-F5) buttons no
longer generate acpi events. this worked fine in
thinkpad-acpi-0.14.20070428_v2.6.21.1. 

i am just about to recompile 2.6.21.6 using the older
thinkpad-acpi-0.14.20070428_v2.6.21.1 patch.

please let me know if i can help further/provide more info.

thanks

Takis


On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 18:56 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I have released version 0.14-20070701 of thinkpad-acpi through the
> sourceforge.net release system.
> 
> It is available as patches against Linux 2.6.20.14 and 2.6.21.5 at:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042&package_id=230205
> 
> This is a major update release, with exciting new functionality:
> 
> 	* Input layer support (HAL will really like this)
> 	* Radio switch support
> 	* "tpb" hot keys support on recent ThinkPads
> 	* autoload based on DMI tables
> 
> It is also one I would really appreciate some comments on, because this
> stuff is going to ship in 2.6.23 and needs to be sent to upstream soon.  It
> changes the way userspace should deal with thinkpad-acpi hot keys (unless
> you configure thinkpad-acpi into deprecated mode at kernel compile time).
> 
> 
> Release Name: 0.14-20070701
> 
> Notes:
> This release has non-backwards-compatible changes,
> make sure to read the documentation, and pay attention
> to the changes in Kconfig.
> 
> * thinkpad-acpi now favours the input layer over ACPI
>   events.
> * the radio switch in *60/*61 models is now supported.
> * the "tpb" hotkeys are now natively supported in recent
>   thinkpads (using interrupts, instead of polling the
>   nvram every 200ms).
> 
> Changes:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (15):
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add DMI-based modalias
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: remove all uneeded initializers
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update information on T43 thermal sensor 0xc1
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: enable more hotkeys
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export hotkey maximum masks
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export to sysfs the state of the radio slider
> switch
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to hotkey
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update CMOS commands documentation
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: register input device
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make the input event mode the default
>       INPUT: add a new EV_SW SW_RADIO event, for radio switches on laptops
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add power-management handler capability
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: export EV_SW SW_RADIO events
>       ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: checkpoint sysfs interface version due to input
> layer
> 
> Lennart Poettering (1):
>       DMI-based module autoloading
> 
> -- 
>   "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
>   them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
>   where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
>   Henrique Holschuh