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authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>2009-04-04 04:25:53 +0000
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2009-04-04 03:14:53 -0400
commit0e501834f8c2ba7de2a56e332d346dcf4ac0b593 (patch)
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thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness support
Refactor and redesign the brightness control backend... In order to fix bugzilla #11750... Add a new brightness control mode: support direct NVRAM checkpointing of the backlight level (i.e. store directly to NVRAM without the need for UCMS calls), and use that together with the EC-based control. Disallow UCMS+EC, thus avoiding races with the SMM firmware. Switch the models that define HBRV (EC Brightness Value) in the DSDT to the new mode. These are: T40-T43, R50-R52, R50e, R51e, X31-X41. Change the default for all other IBM ThinkPads to UCMS-only. The Lenovo models already default to UCMS-only. Reported-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 25ed43d0a21f..3d7650768bb5 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -1157,10 +1157,15 @@ 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 CMOS. To select which one should be used, use the
+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 CMOS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects both EC
-and CMOS. The driver tries to auto-detect which interface to use.
+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.
When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
@@ -1498,6 +1503,7 @@ to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
(bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...)
0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys
0x0010 Fan control
+ 0x0020 Backlight brightness
There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.