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diff --git a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt index dfd26df056f4..7a5c1a81905c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt +++ b/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt @@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> -This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of -the Sony Vaio laptops. +This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC device present in the ACPI BIOS of the +Sony Vaio laptops. This driver mixes both devices functions under the same +(hopefully consistent) interface. This also means that the sonypi driver is +obsoleted by sony-laptop now. -It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current -form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness -through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices. +Fn keys (hotkeys): +------------------ +Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are +reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT +subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and +/proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input +devices are created by the driver. Backlight control: ------------------ @@ -39,6 +45,8 @@ The files are: audiopower power on/off the internal sound card lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card (only in debug mode) + bluetoothpower power on/off the internal bluetooth device + fanspeed get/set the fan speed Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported by your particular laptop model. @@ -76,9 +84,9 @@ The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one. You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by -further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new +further editing the source (see the 'sony_nc_values' table, and add a new entry to this table with your get/set method names using the -HANDLE_NAMES macro). +SNC_HANDLE_NAMES macro). Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those @@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ files and find out what is the impact on your laptop. Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me, I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :) +See also http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers for other +useful info. + Bugs/Limitations: ----------------- |