[ltp] Re: thinkpad-acpi release 0.21-20081111 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Xavier Callejas]

Thank you very much for your work and effort.

I'm just a final user.

I would like a way to compile it without recompile the complete kernel.

rgds.

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> I have released version 0.21-20081111 of thinkpad-acpi through the
> sourceforge.net release system.
> 
> Patches are available for 2.6.25, 2.6.26, 2.6.27 and 2.6.28-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 contains a full backport of the rfkill subsystem from
> wireless-testing, as some new code in thinkpad-acpi needs the
> rfkill_set_default() function.
> 
> The main highlights (previous release) are:
> * Rfkill backport of the latest wireless-testing
> * Preserve fan state on resume, when it is not dangerous to do so
> * Helper patch for Intel IGD backlight control
> * UWB radio support
> * Preserve WWAN, Bluetooth state across shutdown
> 
> The main highlights (new) are:
> * New thermal alarms and battery level alarms (depends on EC, not
>   available on all ThinkPads)
> 
> There were several fixes, so if you were using release 20081019, please
> upgrade ASAP.
> 
> Please test and report any problems.  Since I only have hardware to test
> the rfkill core and fan changes, the UWB and state storage across shutdown
> have not been tested yet... so I would also appreciate success reports for
> those.
>