[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.17-20071002 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

I have released version 0.17-20071002 of thinkpad-acpi through the
sourceforge.net release system.

Patches are available for 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042&package_id=230205

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 needs testing, and it needs testing FAST.  It has two important
features that could make it for 2.6.24, if I get reports of how well they
work in less than a week.

* Support for 16-level brightness for Lenovo thinkpads
  (X61, T61 *needs* this.  X60 likely does so, as well.  T60 appears not to,
   but I welcome tests, it should auto-detect).

  Note that this may or may not fix issues with the brightness *hot keys*,
  but it *really* is supposed to fix all issues with the sysfs/procfs
  backlight/brightness interface on the ThinkPads with 16 levels.

* Revamped NVRAM polling support for hot keys.  I had to redo a lot of the
  code, so that it plugs nicely into hotkey_mask.

  I have received so far *NO* reports from Thinkpads that really benefit
  from NVRAM polling, such as the T23 and T30 and earlier.

-- 
  "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