diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt index fe26e50a2b1..7a06a27ee37 100644 --- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -134,6 +134,21 @@ end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this attribute. +Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered +non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which +point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version +may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet +sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features +may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by +the time they are merged in Linux mainline. + +Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of +attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not +always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must +expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly +(an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a +feature is not available in sysfs). + Hot keys -------- @@ -989,3 +1004,5 @@ Sysfs interface changelog: 0x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and device. +0x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch + support. |