- This option enables thinkpad-acpi hot key handling over the input
- layer at driver load time. When it is unset, the driver does not
- enable hot key handling by default, and also starts up with a mostly
- empty keymap.
+ Some thinkpad models benefit from NVRAM polling to detect a few of
+ the hot key press events. If you know your ThinkPad model does not
+ need to do NVRAM polling to support any of the hot keys you use,
+ unselecting this option will save about 1kB of memory.
+
+ ThinkPads T40 and newer, R52 and newer, and X31 and newer are
+ unlikely to need NVRAM polling in their latest BIOS versions.