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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> I have a z61p, running linux-2.6.21.5, latest fglrx-drivers for X11.
> Some comments:
> 
> - /proc/acpi/ibm/bay is missing - nothing there, is this intentional?

Sort of.  thinkpad-acpi bay and dock handling is deprecated, so I never
rewrote the entire code to cope with *60 and family.  The ACPI generic
handlers for dock and bay should work fine, except for the bay battery.

> - /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal and -fan exists and seems to work

Forget /proc, please.  Look at Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt, and test the
sysfs stuff.  No new stuff will show up in /proc.

> - I can use echo "enable" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth    and it gets
> enabled, but WiFi seems to ignore now the Killswitch (and <fn+F5>),
> so if this isn't enabled. It gets detected (as I can see in dmesg)
> but the killswitch doesn't seem to get recongnized.

Please describe this a bit more.  Atheros WLAN will ignore kill switchs
(needs driver support, and madwifi-ng ain't exactly a brilliant driver),
Intel ones should *always* work (support in hardware, and driver).

The switch I mention is the hardware slider thing a X60 has (others do too,
but I don't know which).

Thanks for the reports.

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