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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 24 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index aafcaa63419..f5056c7fb5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ event code Key Notes For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new BIOS, it has to be handled either by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace. + The driver does the right thing, + never mess with this. 0x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness up for details. @@ -582,46 +584,15 @@ with hotkey_report_mode. Brightness hotkey notes: -These are the current sane choices for brightness key mapping in -thinkpad-acpi: +Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want +notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support. -For IBM and Lenovo models *without* ACPI backlight control (the ones on -which thinkpad-acpi will autoload its backlight interface by default, -and on which ACPI video does not export a backlight interface): - -1. Don't enable or map the brightness hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi, as - these older firmware versions unfortunately won't respect the hotkey - mask for brightness keys anyway, and always reacts to them. This - usually work fine, unless X.org drivers are doing something to block - the BIOS. In that case, use (3) below. This is the default mode of - operation. - -2. Enable the hotkeys, but map them to something else that is NOT - KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP/DOWN or any other keycode that would cause - userspace to try to change the backlight level, and use that as an - on-screen-display hint. - -3. IF AND ONLY IF X.org drivers find a way to block the firmware from - automatically changing the brightness, enable the hotkeys and map - them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN, and feed that to - something that calls xbacklight. thinkpad-acpi will not be able to - change brightness in that case either, so you should disable its - backlight interface. - -For Lenovo models *with* ACPI backlight control: - -1. Load up ACPI video and use that. ACPI video will report ACPI - events for brightness change keys. Do not mess with thinkpad-acpi - defaults in this case. thinkpad-acpi should not have anything to do - with backlight events in a scenario where ACPI video is loaded: - brightness hotkeys must be disabled, and the backlight interface is - to be kept disabled as well. This is the default mode of operation. - -2. Do *NOT* load up ACPI video, enable the hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi, - and map them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN. Process - these keys on userspace somehow (e.g. by calling xbacklight). - The driver will do this automatically if it detects that ACPI video - has been disabled. +The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events +automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to +implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will +either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit +action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require +that no action be taken to work properly. Bluetooth @@ -1465,3 +1436,5 @@ Sysfs interface changelog: and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask is deprecated and marked for removal. + +0x020600: Marker for backlight change event support. diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c index fce5c554dbc..8194d165cec 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ */ #define TPACPI_VERSION "0.23" -#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x020500 +#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x020600 /* * Changelog: @@ -6083,6 +6083,12 @@ static int brightness_get(struct backlight_device *bd) return status & TP_EC_BACKLIGHT_LVLMSK; } +static void tpacpi_brightness_notify_change(void) +{ + backlight_force_update(ibm_backlight_device, + BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_HOTKEY); +} + static struct backlight_ops ibm_backlight_data = { .get_brightness = brightness_get, .update_status = brightness_update_status, @@ -6237,6 +6243,12 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm) ibm_backlight_device->props.brightness = b & TP_EC_BACKLIGHT_LVLMSK; backlight_update_status(ibm_backlight_device); + vdbg_printk(TPACPI_DBG_INIT | TPACPI_DBG_BRGHT, + "brightness: registering brightness hotkeys " + "as change notification\n"); + tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set(hotkey_driver_mask + | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTUP_MASK + | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTDWN_MASK);; return 0; } @@ -6313,6 +6325,9 @@ static int brightness_write(char *buf) * Doing it this way makes the syscall restartable in case of EINTR */ rc = brightness_set(level); + if (!rc && ibm_backlight_device) + backlight_force_update(ibm_backlight_device, + BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS); return (rc == -EINTR)? -ERESTARTSYS : rc; } @@ -7712,6 +7727,13 @@ static struct ibm_struct fan_driver_data = { */ static void tpacpi_driver_event(const unsigned int hkey_event) { + if (ibm_backlight_device) { + switch (hkey_event) { + case TP_HKEY_EV_BRGHT_UP: + case TP_HKEY_EV_BRGHT_DOWN: + tpacpi_brightness_notify_change(); + } + } } |