[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.17-20071007 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

I have released version 0.17-20071007 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


I have fixed a lot of stuff on the 16-level brightness support for X60, *61,
as well as the NVRAM poll support for T23, X3x, and many others (including
lots of X4x, T4x and R5x).

Unfortunately, I had to mess with the 16-level brightness support *again*,
because I was doing exactly what I didn't want to (i.e. using something that
is likely to break if Lenovo decided to add ACPI standard brightness support
to thinkpads with 8 brightness levels).

Also, hot key NVRAM polling support was not working on anything that did not
report 0x00ffffff as the hotkey_all_mask, and that includes basically all
models that really need NVRAM polling (argh!).  The changes to fix this one
were *really* extensive.

Please test and report.  I intend to try to get both features into 2.6.24.

-- 
  "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