@@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ event code Key Notes
For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
BIOS, it has to be handled either
by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
+ The driver does the right thing,
+ never mess with this.
0x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
up for details.
@@ -582,46 +584,15 @@ with hotkey_report_mode.
Brightness hotkey notes:
-These are the current sane choices for brightness key mapping in
-thinkpad-acpi:
+Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want
+notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support.
-For IBM and Lenovo models *without* ACPI backlight control (the ones on
-which thinkpad-acpi will autoload its backlight interface by default,
-and on which ACPI video does not export a backlight interface):
-
-1. Don't enable or map the brightness hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi, as
- these older firmware versions unfortunately won't respect the hotkey
- mask for brightness keys anyway, and always reacts to them. This
- usually work fine, unless X.org drivers are doing something to block
- the BIOS. In that case, use (3) below. This is the default mode of
- operation.
-
-2. Enable the hotkeys, but map them to something else that is NOT
- KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP/DOWN or any other keycode that would cause
- userspace to try to change the backlight level, and use that as an
- on-screen-display hint.
-
-3. IF AND ONLY IF X.org drivers find a way to block the firmware from
- automatically changing the brightness, enable the hotkeys and map
- them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN, and feed that to
- something that calls xbacklight. thinkpad-acpi will not be able to
- change brightness in that case either, so you should disable its
- backlight interface.
-
-For Lenovo models *with* ACPI backlight control:
-
-1. Load up ACPI video and use that. ACPI video will report ACPI
- events for brightness change keys. Do not mess with thinkpad-acpi
- defaults in this case. thinkpad-acpi should not have anything to do
- with backlight events in a scenario where ACPI video is loaded:
- brightness hotkeys must be disabled, and the backlight interface is
- to be kept disabled as well. This is the default mode of operation.
-
-2. Do *NOT* load up ACPI video, enable the hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi,
- and map them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN. Process
- these keys on userspace somehow (e.g. by calling xbacklight).
- The driver will do this automatically if it detects that ACPI video
- has been disabled.
+The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events
+automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to
+implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will
+either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit
+action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require
+that no action be taken to work properly.
Bluetooth
@@ -1465,3 +1436,5 @@ Sysfs interface changelog:
and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old
thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask
is deprecated and marked for removal.
+
+0x020600: Marker for backlight change event support.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
*/
#define TPACPI_VERSION "0.23"
-#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x020500
+#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x020600
/*
* Changelog:
@@ -6073,6 +6073,12 @@ static int brightness_get(struct backlight_device *bd)
return status & TP_EC_BACKLIGHT_LVLMSK;
}
+static void tpacpi_brightness_notify_change(void)
+{
+ backlight_force_update(ibm_backlight_device,
+ BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_HOTKEY);
+}
+
static struct backlight_ops ibm_backlight_data = {
.get_brightness = brightness_get,
.update_status = brightness_update_status,
@@ -6227,6 +6233,12 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
ibm_backlight_device->props.brightness = b & TP_EC_BACKLIGHT_LVLMSK;
backlight_update_status(ibm_backlight_device);
+ vdbg_printk(TPACPI_DBG_INIT | TPACPI_DBG_BRGHT,
+ "brightness: registering brightness hotkeys "
+ "as change notification\n");
+ tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set(hotkey_driver_mask
+ | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTUP_MASK
+ | TP_ACPI_HKEY_BRGHTDWN_MASK);;
return 0;
}
@@ -6303,6 +6315,9 @@ static int brightness_write(char *buf)
* Doing it this way makes the syscall restartable in case of EINTR
*/
rc = brightness_set(level);
+ if (!rc && ibm_backlight_device)
+ backlight_force_update(ibm_backlight_device,
+ BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS);
return (rc == -EINTR)? -ERESTARTSYS : rc;
}
@@ -7702,6 +7717,13 @@ static struct ibm_struct fan_driver_data = {
*/
static void tpacpi_driver_event(const unsigned int hkey_event)
{
+ if (ibm_backlight_device) {
+ switch (hkey_event) {
+ case TP_HKEY_EV_BRGHT_UP:
+ case TP_HKEY_EV_BRGHT_DOWN:
+ tpacpi_brightness_notify_change();
+ }
+ }
}