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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-29 10:47:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-29 10:47:25 -0700
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Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (105 commits) sonypi: use mutex instead of semaphore sony-laptop: remove user visible camera controls as platform attributes meye: make meye use sony-laptop instead of sonypi sony-laptop: add a meye-usable include file for camera ops sony-laptop: complete the motion eye camera support in sony-laptop sonypi: try to detect if sony-laptop has already taken one of the known ioports sonypi: suggest sonypi users to try sony-laptop instead sony-laptop: add edge modem support (also called WWAN) sony-laptop: add locking on accesses to the ioport and global vars sony-laptop: add camera enable/disable parameter, better handle possible infinite loop thinkpad-acpi: make drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi:fan_mutex static ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to wan and bluetooth subdrivers ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to hotkey subdriver ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve dock subdriver initialization ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve debugging for acpi helpers ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve fan control documentation ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: map ENXIO to EINVAL for fan sysfs ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix a fan watchdog invocation ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not arm fan watchdog if it would not work ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add a fan-control feature master toggle ...
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@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme
Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
-This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of
-the Sony Vaio laptops.
+This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC device present in the ACPI BIOS of the
+Sony Vaio laptops. This driver mixes both devices functions under the same
+(hopefully consistent) interface. This also means that the sonypi driver is
+obsoleted by sony-laptop now.
-It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current
-form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness
-through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices.
+Fn keys (hotkeys):
+------------------
+Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are
+reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT
+subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and
+/proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input
+devices are created by the driver.
Backlight control:
------------------
@@ -39,6 +45,8 @@ The files are:
audiopower power on/off the internal sound card
lanpower power on/off the internal ethernet card
(only in debug mode)
+ bluetoothpower power on/off the internal bluetooth device
+ fanspeed get/set the fan speed
Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported
by your particular laptop model.
@@ -76,9 +84,9 @@ The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most
current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under
/sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one.
You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by
-further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new
+further editing the source (see the 'sony_nc_values' table, and add a new
entry to this table with your get/set method names using the
-HANDLE_NAMES macro).
+SNC_HANDLE_NAMES macro).
Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what
those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those
@@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ files and find out what is the impact on your laptop.
Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me,
I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :)
+See also http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers for other
+useful info.
+
Bugs/Limitations:
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