Merge branches 'release', 'wmi' and 'laptop-docs' into release

Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ kref.txt
 	- docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
 laptop-mode.txt
 	- how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
+laptops/
+	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
 	- a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).
 leds-class.txt
@@ -351,10 +353,6 @@ sh/
 	- directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.
 smart-config.txt
 	- description of the Smart Config makefile feature.
-sony-laptop.txt
-	- Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
-sonypi.txt
-	- info on Linux Sony Programmable I/O Device support.
 sound/
 	- directory with info on sound card support.
 sparc/
@@ -385,8 +383,6 @@ sysrq.txt
 	- info on the magic SysRq key.
 telephony/
 	- directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support.
-thinkpad-acpi.txt
-	- information on the (IBM and Lenovo) ThinkPad ACPI Extras driver.
 time_interpolators.txt
 	- info on time interpolators.
 tipar.txt

Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX

+00-INDEX
+	- This file
+acer-wmi.txt
+	- information on the Acer Laptop WMI Extras driver.
+sony-laptop.txt
+	- Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
+sonypi.txt
+	- info on Linux Sony Programmable I/O Device support.
+thinkpad-acpi.txt
+	- information on the (IBM and Lenovo) ThinkPad ACPI Extras driver.

Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt

+Acer Laptop WMI Extras Driver
+http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi
+Version 0.1
+9th February 2008
+
+Copyright 2007-2008 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
+
+acer-wmi is a driver to allow you to control various parts of your Acer laptop
+hardware under Linux which are exposed via ACPI-WMI.
+
+This driver completely replaces the old out-of-tree acer_acpi, which I am
+currently maintaining for bug fixes only on pre-2.6.25 kernels. All development
+work is now focused solely on acer-wmi.
+
+Disclaimer
+**********
+
+Acer and Wistron have provided nothing towards the development acer_acpi or
+acer-wmi. All information we have has been through the efforts of the developers
+and the users to discover as much as possible about the hardware.
+
+As such, I do warn that this could break your hardware - this is extremely
+unlikely of course, but please bear this in mind.
+
+Background
+**********
+
+acer-wmi is derived from acer_acpi, originally developed by Mark
+Smith in 2005, then taken over by Carlos Corbacho in 2007, in order to activate
+the wireless LAN card under a 64-bit version of Linux, as acerhk[1] (the
+previous solution to the problem) relied on making 32 bit BIOS calls which are
+not possible in kernel space from a 64 bit OS.
+
+[1] acerhk: http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/
+
+Supported Hardware
+******************
+
+Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
+
+http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
+
+If your laptop is not listed, or listed as unknown, and works with acer-wmi,
+please contact me with a copy of the DSDT.
+
+If your Acer laptop doesn't work with acer-wmi, I would also like to see the
+DSDT.
+
+To send me the DSDT, as root/sudo:
+
+cat /sys/firmware/acpi/DSDT > dsdt
+
+And send me the resulting 'dsdt' file.
+
+Usage
+*****
+
+On Acer laptops, acer-wmi should already be autoloaded based on DMI matching.
+For non-Acer laptops, until WMI based autoloading support is added, you will
+need to manually load acer-wmi.
+
+acer-wmi creates /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi, and fills it with various
+files whose usage is detailed below, which enables you to control some of the
+following (varies between models):
+
+* the wireless LAN card radio
+* inbuilt Bluetooth adapter
+* inbuilt 3G card
+* mail LED of your laptop
+* brightness of the LCD panel
+
+Wireless
+********
+
+With regards to wireless, all acer-wmi does is enable the radio on the card. It
+is not responsible for the wireless LED - once the radio is enabled, this is
+down to the wireless driver for your card. So the behaviour of the wireless LED,
+once you enable the radio, will depend on your hardware and driver combination.
+
+e.g. With the BCM4318 on the Acer Aspire 5020 series:
+
+ndiswrapper: Light blinks on when transmitting
+bcm43xx/b43: Solid light, blinks off when transmitting
+
+Wireless radio control is unconditionally enabled - all Acer laptops that support
+acer-wmi come with built-in wireless. However, should you feel so inclined to
+ever wish to remove the card, or swap it out at some point, please get in touch
+with me, as we may well be able to gain some data on wireless card detection.
+
+To read the status of the wireless radio (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To enable the wireless radio:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To disable the wireless radio:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To set the state of the wireless radio when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+wireless=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+Bluetooth
+*********
+
+For bluetooth, this is an internal USB dongle, so once enabled, you will get
+a USB device connection event, and a new USB device appears. When you disable
+bluetooth, you get the reverse - a USB device disconnect event, followed by the
+device disappearing again.
+
+Bluetooth is autodetected by acer-wmi, so if you do not have a bluetooth module
+installed in your laptop, this file won't exist (please be aware that it is
+quite common for Acer not to fit bluetooth to their laptops - so just because
+you have a bluetooth button on the laptop, doesn't mean that bluetooth is
+installed).
+
+For the adventurously minded - if you want to buy an internal bluetooth
+module off the internet that is compatible with your laptop and fit it, then
+it will work just fine with acer-wmi.
+
+To read the status of the bluetooth module (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To enable the bluetooth module:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/bluetooth
+
+To disable the bluetooth module:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/bluetooth
+
+To set the state of the bluetooth module when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+bluetooth=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+3G
+**
+
+3G is currently not autodetected, so the 'threeg' file is always created under
+sysfs. So far, no-one in possession of an Acer laptop with 3G built-in appears to
+have tried Linux, or reported back, so we don't have any information on this.
+
+If you have an Acer laptop that does have a 3G card in, please contact me so we
+can properly detect these, and find out a bit more about them.
+
+To read the status of the 3G card (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To enable the 3G card:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To disable the 3G card:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To set the state of the 3G card when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+threeg=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+Mail LED
+********
+
+This can be found in most older Acer laptops supported by acer-wmi, and many
+newer ones - it is built into the 'mail' button, and blinks when active.
+
+On newer (WMID) laptops though, we have no way of detecting the mail LED. If
+your laptop identifies itself in dmesg as a WMID model, then please try loading
+acer_acpi with:
+
+force_series=2490
+
+This will use a known alternative method of reading/ writing the mail LED. If
+it works, please report back to me with the DMI data from your laptop so this
+can be added to acer-wmi.
+
+The LED is exposed through the LED subsystem, and can be found in:
+
+/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/leds/acer-mail:green/
+
+The mail LED is autodetected, so if you don't have one, the LED device won't
+be registered.
+
+If you have a mail LED that is not green, please report this to me.
+
+Backlight
+*********
+
+The backlight brightness control is available on all acer-wmi supported
+hardware. The maximum brightness level is usually 15, but on some newer laptops
+it's 10 (this is again autodetected).
+
+The backlight is exposed through the backlight subsystem, and can be found in:
+
+/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/backlight/acer-wmi/
+
+Credits
+*******
+
+Olaf Tauber, who did the real hard work when he developed acerhk
+http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk
+All the authors of laptop ACPI modules in the kernel, whose work
+was an inspiration in the early days of acer_acpi
+Mathieu Segaud, who solved the problem with having to modprobe the driver
+twice in acer_acpi 0.2.
+Jim Ramsay, who added support for the WMID interface
+Mark Smith, who started the original acer_acpi
+
+And the many people who have used both acer_acpi and acer-wmi.

Documentation/sony-laptop.txt → Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt

@@ -114,4 +114,3 @@ Bugs/Limitations:
   sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the
   sony-laptop driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first,
   and if it isn't present, try sony-laptop instead.
-

drivers/char/Kconfig

@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ config SONYPI
 	  Device which can be found in many (all ?) Sony Vaio laptops.
 
 	  If you have one of those laptops, read
-	  <file:Documentation/sonypi.txt>, and say Y or M here.
+	  <file:Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt>, and say Y or M here.
 
 	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
 	  module will be called sonypi.

drivers/misc/Kconfig

@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ config ACER_WMI
 	  wireless radio and bluetooth control, and on some laptops,
 	  exposes the mail LED and LCD backlight.
 
+	  For more information about this driver see
+	  <file:Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt>
+
 	  If you have an ACPI-WMI compatible Acer/ Wistron laptop, say Y or M
 	  here.
 
@@ -152,8 +155,9 @@ config FUJITSU_LAPTOP
 	  If you have a Fujitsu laptop, say Y or M here.
 
 config TC1100_WMI
-	tristate "HP Compaq TC1100 Tablet WMI Extras"
+	tristate "HP Compaq TC1100 Tablet WMI Extras (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on X86 && !X86_64
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
 	depends on ACPI
 	select ACPI_WMI
 	---help---
@@ -192,7 +196,7 @@ config SONY_LAPTOP
 	  screen brightness control, Fn keys and allows powering on/off some
 	  devices.
 
-	  Read <file:Documentation/sony-laptop.txt> for more information.
+	  Read <file:Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt> for more information.
 
 config SONYPI_COMPAT
 	bool "Sonypi compatibility"
@@ -212,7 +216,8 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI
 	  support for Fn-Fx key combinations, Bluetooth control, video
 	  output switching, ThinkLight control, UltraBay eject and more.
 	  For more information about this driver see
-	  <file:Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt> and <http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/> .
+	  <file:Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt> and
+	  <http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/> .
 
 	  This driver was formerly known as ibm-acpi.
 

drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c

@@ -428,10 +428,8 @@ static acpi_status AMW0_set_u32(u32 value, u32 cap, struct wmi_interface *iface)
 		if (value > max_brightness)
 			return AE_BAD_PARAMETER;
 		switch (quirks->brightness) {
-		case 1:
-			return ec_write(0x83, value);
 		default:
-			return AE_BAD_ADDRESS;
+			return ec_write(0x83, value);
 			break;
 		}
 	default: