[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.18-20071013 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

I have released version 0.18-20071013 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


The code for 16-level brightness support went through further changes, to
address comments from the linux-acpi ML.  It now uses BCLL to detect the
levels because _BCL can have side-effects.

Also, I added the brightness_force parameter, which allows one to disable
brightness support in any thinkpad, and to enable brightness support in
thinkpads that have standard ACPI backlight brightness support.  Please
test, you should need to use brightness_force=1 on any T6x and X6x with
their latest BIOSes to get thinkpad-acpi backlight support.

Also, if someone that owns a T6x or X6x that keeps his BIOS always
up-to-date offers to do heavy testing with kernels 2.6.20-2.6.22, I will
consider adding ACPI video driver backports to the thinkpad-acpi backport
releases.

I have sent everything upstream, but it has NOT been accepted yet.

-- 
  "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