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authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>2008-07-21 09:15:51 -0300
committerHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>2008-07-21 09:15:51 -0300
commit0e74dc2646db04b644faa8ea10ff4f408d55cf90 (patch)
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parent133ec3bd3ae409895eacdce326cdc8d73c249e8a (diff)
downloadlinux-0e74dc2646db04b644faa8ea10ff4f408d55cf90.tar.bz2
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add bluetooth and WWAN rfkill support
Add a read/write rfkill interface to the bluetooth radio switch on the bluetooth submodule, and one for the wireless wan radio switch to the wan submodule. Since rfkill does care for when a switch changes state, use WLSW notifications to also check if the WWAN or Bluetooth switches did not change state (due to them being slaves of WLSW in firmware/hardware, but that reality not being always properly exported by the thinkpad firmware). Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/laptops')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 64b3f146e4b0..1c1c0217ebd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -621,7 +621,8 @@ Bluetooth
---------
procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
-sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable
+sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated)
+sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw"
This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
@@ -643,8 +644,12 @@ Sysfs notes:
0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
- Note: this interface will be probably be superseded by the
- generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet.
+ Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
+ class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
+ 2010.
+
+ rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to
+ Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
--------------------------------------------
@@ -1374,7 +1379,8 @@ EXPERIMENTAL: WAN
-----------------
procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
-sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable
+sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
+sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
@@ -1404,8 +1410,12 @@ Sysfs notes:
0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
- Note: this interface will be probably be superseded by the
- generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet.
+ Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
+ class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
+ 2010.
+
+ rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
+ Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
------------------------------------