From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Deianov Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] ibm-acpi: Add documentation for wan feature. Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:24:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20060926192433.GE1971@aero.ensim.com> References: <20060922101913.276298370@datenfreihafen.org> <20060922101945.111263030@datenfreihafen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from smtp1.ensim.com ([65.164.64.254]:60462 "EHLO aero.ensim.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932486AbWIZTYj (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:24:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060922101945.111263030@datenfreihafen.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Stefan Schmidt , Len Brown Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:19:16PM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm-acpi. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Looks good to me. Len, please apply. Borislav Index: linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi.orig/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:06:04.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-ibm-acpi/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt 2006-09-21 21:20:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ - LCD brightness control - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable + - Experimental: 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 @@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ echo 'level ' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal +EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan +--------------------------------------- + +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. + +This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra +Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can +be used: + + echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + +It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other +Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------