[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.24-20100220 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:27:31 -0300


I have released version 0.24-20100220 of thinkpad-acpi through the
sourceforge.net release system.

Patches are available for 2.6.27 to 2.6.32, at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20100220/

(support for 2.6.28 to 2.6.31 will be discontinued soon).

git users can get it directly from tags in:
git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git

This release has some bug fixes, the most important ones being to ALSA
and the ALSA mixer support, and to the NVRAM polling code.

I have pending reports that the ALSA mixer does not always play well
with the newer ThinkPads with mute-only control.  This is not a new
regression, whatever the bug is, it has been there for a long time but
people never paid attention until it become easy to use through ALSA.
I'd appreciate some volunteers to do some testing on the Lenovo *61,
*400, *500 and newer ThinkPads.


Changelog:

thinkpad-acpi: make driver events work in NVRAM poll mode
thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output control to root only
thinkpad-acpi: fix bluetooth/wwan resume
thinkpad-acpi: wrong thermal attribute_group removed in thermal_exit()
thinkpad-acpi: fix poll thread auto-start
thinkpad-acpi: R52 brightness_mode has been confirmed
thinkpad-acpi: document HKEY event 3006
ALSA: use subsys_initcall for sound core instead of module_init

-- 
  "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