lenovo-sl-laptop is a new driver that adds support for hotkeys, bluetooth, LEDs and screen brightness on the Lenovo ThinkPad SL series laptops. [1] These laptops are not supported by the normal thinkpad_acpi driver because their firmware is quite different from the "real" ThinkPads. [2] After I wrote the SL series driver, I posted it on the linux thinkpad mailing list, asking whether it would be a good idea to try to merge it with thinkpad_acpi. Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, the thinkpad_acpi maintainer, replied that lenovo-sl-laptop should be kept separate from thinkpad_acpi. [3] Since then, I have received a number of emails from users who had tried the driver on their laptops and found that it works. Thus, I am posting it here for review and hope for eventual inclusion in staging. Patches against 2.6.29-rc5 will be in following emails. One important note concerning the backlight. Currently, the ACPI video driver has poor support for the ThinkPad SL series because their _BCL and _BQC methods violate the ACPI spec. Thus, the lenovo-sl-laptop driver adds optional (controlled via module parameter, default off) support for setting the backlight brightness. Zhang Rui has stated that he will be working on making the ACPI video driver properly support the ThinkPad SL series and other laptops with non-standard backlight brightness interfaces. When he is finished, backlight functionality can probably be safely removed from lenovo-sl-laptop. [4] Finally, a list of things that the driver does not currently support. There is no support for the hdaps accelerometer (and adding it would be difficult), no sensor information (I don't yet understand how to decode it), and no fan speed control. [1] Homepage: http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop [2] http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2009-January/046122.html [3] http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2009-January/046172.html [4] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12249 Signed-off-by: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@xxxxxxxxx> Documentation/laptops/lenovo-sl-laptop.txt | 130 +++ drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + drivers/staging/lenovo-sl-laptop/Kconfig | 16 + drivers/staging/lenovo-sl-laptop/Makefile | 1 + .../staging/lenovo-sl-laptop/lenovo-sl-laptop.c | 1089 ++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 1239 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-laptop" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
