From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: Update documentation for brightness and volume.
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:05:44 -0400
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11608131722926-git-send-email-len.brown@intel.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <24f7ff0af855ece60064a2532d8b316df02983c6.1160812999.git.len.brown@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11608131691346-git-send-email-len.brown@intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <288f3ad406460f03642a41bb945826891a7b866f.1160812999.git.len.brown@intel.com>
From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Document the change of the experimental flag for brightness and volume.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---
Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 22 ++++++----------------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
index 71aa403..1672590 100644
--- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ detailed description):
- ACPI sounds
- temperature sensors
- Experimental: embedded controller register dump
- - Experimental: LCD brightness control
- - Experimental: volume control
+ - LCD brightness control
+ - Volume control
- Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable
A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
@@ -523,13 +523,8 @@ registers contain the current battery ca
with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
-EXPERIMENTAL: LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-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.
+LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
+---------------------------------------------------
This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. The available
@@ -542,13 +537,8 @@ commands are:
The <level> number range is 0 to 7, although not all of them may be
distinct. The current brightness level is shown in the file.
-EXPERIMENTAL: Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
------------------------------------------------------
-
-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.
+Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
+---------------------------------------
This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have
a hardware volume knob. The available commands are:
--
1.4.3.rc2.g23bed-dirty
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-14 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-14 8:05 ACPI patches pushed to linux-2.6.19-rc2 Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 1/28] ACPI: asus_acpi: W3000 support Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 2/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: Remove experimental status for brightness and volume Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown [this message]
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 3/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: Update documentation " Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 4/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 5/28] ACPI: sbs: check for NULL device pointer Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 6/28] ACPI: sbs: fix module_param() initializers Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 7/28] ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAIT Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 8/28] ACPI: consolidate functions in acpi ec driver Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 14/28] ACPI: EC: export ec_transaction() for msi-laptop driver Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 15/28] MSI S270 Laptop support: backlight, wlan, bluetooth states Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` [PATCH 18/28] ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentation Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:05 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 19/28] ACPI: fix potential OOPS in power driver with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 20/28] ACPI: acpi_pci_link_set() can allocate with either GFP_ATOMIC or GFP_KERNEL Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 21/28] ACPI: update comments in motherboard.c Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2007-01-07 4:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 22/28] ACPI: fix section for CPU init functions Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 23/28] ACPI: fix printk format warnings Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 24/28] ACPI: SCI interrupt source override Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 25/28] ACPI: asus_acpi: fix proc files parsing Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 26/28] ACPI: asus_acpi: don't printk on writing garbage to proc files Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 27/28] ACPICA: Fix incorrect handling of PCI Express Root Bridge _HID Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` [PATCH 28/28] ACPI: check battery status on resume for un/plug events during sleep Len Brown
2006-10-14 8:06 ` Len Brown
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