Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is > > about to melt down or go out of juice, and will warn you accordingly through > > syslog and an

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Xavier Callejas wrote: > Do you think we could try to find out what Lenovo+Novell did with ibm-acpi in > its SLED10 ??? thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi is *out of the circuit* for brightness control on GPU-based brightness setups on modern X.org. That means your T61. If you want to

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:47:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > None. I could start trying to, yes, but it is best to test the changes in > the kernel first, THEN see if I can somehow get the kernel to adopt a > generic interface for a certain stuff... > > Only after all that, sho

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is > about to melt down or go out of juice, and will warn you accordingly through > syslog and an ACPI event (that HAL can trap and do something with

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Xavier Callejas
On Saturday 18 October 2008 20:14:22 you wrote: > There is very, very little thinkpad-acpi can do for brightness control on > anything with the Lenovo Vista BIOS. I bought my Thinkpad T61 with SLED10 preinstalled (nothing about MS Windows at all). This keys works perflectly in the SLED10; the th

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Xavier Callejas wrote: > > This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and > > send them to upstream.  Use it wisely ;-) > > Hi, > > Does this new release will bring the fix for brightness fn keys for the > Thinkpad T61? No, it will just stop an annoy

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Xavier Callejas
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and > send them to upstream.  Use it wisely ;-) Hi, Does this new release will bring the fix for brightness fn keys for the Thinkpad T61? Thanks. --

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Jim Paris wrote: > > Then the ones that are very nice, but are available only on fairly recent > > ThinkPad BIOSes: > > > > 4. New HKEY notifications for overtemperature on the mainboard and battery! > > > > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpa

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: Remove firmware backlight delays for Intel ACPI IGD OpRegion

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Based on analysis and a patch from Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Instruct the ThinkPad ACPI firmware to remove delays on the processing of backlight brightness changes. This method is present on ThinkPad Vista-compatible BIOSes with standard ACPI backlight level control. Signed-off-by: He

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 3/4] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: Remove duplicate line

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
From: Pascal Terjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: trivial fix of error message

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
From: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trivial fix makes the error message match the code before it (ibm->driver vs ibm->acpi-driver) better. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c |

[ibm-acpi-devel] [GIT PATCH] thinkpad-acpi late changes for the merge window

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Len, This patchset has the changes for thinkpad-acpi that I would like to see merged for 2.6.28 (while the window is still open). It includes the patch for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11331, which is the same as the one you already got in acpi-test as far as code goes, but it migh

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: attempt to preserve fan state on resume

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Attempt to preserve fan state across sleep and hibernation if the fan control mode is enabled. For safety reasons, only the PWM OFF (fan at 100%) or maximum closed-loop level (level 7) are preserved. If the fan state was set to anything else, it will not be restored. Also, should the fan be at P

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Jim Paris
> Then the ones that are very nice, but are available only on fairly recent > ThinkPad BIOSes: > > 4. New HKEY notifications for overtemperature on the mainboard and battery! > > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is > about to melt down or go out of juice, and

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x60s: problems with brightness keys (again)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Matthew! On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:45:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > The correct thing would be for Matthew to send it in along with the DRM > > > stuff, which I bel

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x60s: problems with brightness keys (again)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:45:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > The correct thing would be for Matthew to send it in along with the DRM > > stuff, which I believe he will do. We don't know what sort of breakage > > could happen if we t

[ibm-acpi-devel] Upcoming changes to thinkpad-acpi (your chance to comment on them)

2008-10-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
There are a few very nice things in the works, and some that a few will think are not that nice. This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and send them to upstream. Use it wisely ;-) First, the ones I don't expect to be a problem: 1. UWB rfkill control (done, needs t

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] x60s: problems with brightness keys (again)

2008-10-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:45:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The correct thing would be for Matthew to send it in along with the DRM > stuff, which I believe he will do. We don't know what sort of breakage > could happen if we toggle that thing ON without opregion support. The D