[ltp] Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] thinkpad-acpi release 0.24-20100220 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Jerone Young]

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 12:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I have released version 0.24-20100220 of thinkpad-acpi through the
> sourceforge.net release system.
> 
> Patches are available for 2.6.27 to 2.6.32, at:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ibm-acpi/files/thinkpad-acpi/0.24-20100220/
> 
> (support for 2.6.28 to 2.6.31 will be discontinued soon).
> 
> 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 has some bug fixes, the most important ones being to ALSA
> and the ALSA mixer support, and to the NVRAM polling code.
> 
> I have pending reports that the ALSA mixer does not always play well
> with the newer ThinkPads with mute-only control.  This is not a new
> regression, whatever the bug is, it has been there for a long time but
> people never paid attention until it become easy to use through ALSA.
> I'd appreciate some volunteers to do some testing on the Lenovo *61,
> *400, *500 and newer ThinkPads.

Just tired it out on my Thinkpad X301 and it does work. When using the
proc interface if I echo mute .. it mutes the speakers .. and I see the
orange light come on. When unmute orange light goes out and it unmutes
the speakers.

			Thanks,
				Jerone

> 
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> thinkpad-acpi: make driver events work in NVRAM poll mode
> thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output control to root only
> thinkpad-acpi: fix bluetooth/wwan resume
> thinkpad-acpi: wrong thermal attribute_group removed in thermal_exit()
> thinkpad-acpi: fix poll thread auto-start
> thinkpad-acpi: R52 brightness_mode has been confirmed
> thinkpad-acpi: document HKEY event 3006
> ALSA: use subsys_initcall for sound core instead of module_init
>