mirrors/linux-stable
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git synced 2024-09-04 01:49:36 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

thinkpad-acpi: forbid the use of HBRV on Lenovo ThinkPads

Browse source 
Forcing thinkpad-acpi to do EC-based brightness control (HBRV) on a
X61 has very... interesting effects, instead of doing nothing (since
it doesn't have EC-based backlight control), it causes "weirdness" in
the fan tachometer readings, for example.

This means the EC register that used to be HBRV has been reused by
Lenovo for something else, but they didn't remove it from the DSDT.

Make sure the documentation reflects this data, and forbid the user
from forcing the driver to access HBRV on Lenovo ThinkPads.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2009-06-18 00:40:16 -03:00 committed by Len Brown
parent 8bf3d4c535
commit d7880f10c5
2 changed files with 18 additions and 6 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

14
Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
View file

@ -1169,17 +1169,19 @@ may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
from 0 to 15.
There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control,
EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be used, use the
brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode,
brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered
across shutdown/reboot).
For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
shutdown/reboot).
The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native

10
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
View file

@ -5696,6 +5696,10 @@ static struct ibm_struct ecdump_driver_data = {
* Bit 3-0: backlight brightness level
*
* brightness_get_raw returns status data in the HBRV layout
*
* WARNING: The X61 has been verified to use HBRV for something else, so
* this should be used _only_ on IBM ThinkPads, and maybe with some careful
* testing on the very early *60 Lenovo models...
*/
enum {
@ -5996,6 +6000,12 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
brightness_mode);
}
/* Safety */
if (thinkpad_id.vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM &&
(brightness_mode == TPACPI_BRGHT_MODE_ECNVRAM ||
brightness_mode == TPACPI_BRGHT_MODE_EC))
return -EINVAL;
if (tpacpi_brightness_get_raw(&b) < 0)
return 1;