ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
- Version 0.21
- May 29th, 2008
+ Version 0.22
+ November 23rd, 2008
Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
0.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was
moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
-2.6.22, and release 0.14.
+2.6.22, and release 0.14. It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for
+kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22.
The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module
names, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace issues.
rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
+EXPERIMENTAL: UWB
+-----------------
+
+This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively
+tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature 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 rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw"
+
+This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is
+present and enabled in the BIOS.
+
+Sysfs notes:
+
+ rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to
+ Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
+
Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
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0x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
support. If you must, use it to know you should not
- start an userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
+ start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
unneeded/undesired in the first place).
0x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling