ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
- Version 0.20
- April 09th, 2008
+ Version 0.21
+ May 29th, 2008
Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
- LCD brightness control
- Volume control
- Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
- - Experimental: WAN enable and disable
+ - WAN enable and disable
A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
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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.
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- Note: this interface will be probably be superseded by the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+ Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill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
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would be the safest choice, though).
-EXPERIMENTAL: WAN
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+WAN
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procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
-sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable
-
-This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
-directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
-WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
-experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
+sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
+sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
This feature shows the presence and current state of a W-WAN (Sierra
Wireless EV-DO) device.
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- Note: this interface will be probably be superseded by the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+ Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill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
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