Support for I2C/DDC was recently added to the tdfxfb driver, which
means that the i2c-voodoo3 driver can be deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
RDMA/nes: Add support for new SFP+ PHY
RDMA/nes: Add wide_ppm_offset parm for switch compatibility
RDMA/nes: Fix SFP+ PHY initialization
RDMA/nes: Fix nes_nic_cm_xmit() error handling
RDMA/nes: Fix error handling issues
RDMA/nes: Fix incorrect casts on 32-bit architectures
IPoIB: Document newish features
RDMA/cma: Create cm id even when IB port is down
RDMA/cma: Use rate from IPoIB broadcast when joining IPoIB multicast groups
IPoIB: Avoid free_netdev() BUG when destroying a child interface
mlx4_core: Don't leak mailbox for SET_PORT on Ethernet ports
RDMA/cxgb3: Release dependent resources only when endpoint memory is freed.
RDMA/cxgb3: Handle EEH events
IB/mlx4: Use pgprot_writecombine() for BlueFlame pages
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: consolidate documents
blktrace: pass the right pointer to kfree()
tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH
Move kmemtrace.txt, tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to
the new trace/ directory.
I didnt find any references to those documents in both source
files and documents, so no extra work needs to be done.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49DD6E2B.6090200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Update the documentation to include connected mode, stateless offloads
and interrupt moderation, and add a reference to the connected mode RFC.
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
loop: mutex already unlocked in loop_clr_fd()
cfq-iosched: don't let idling interfere with plugging
block: remove unused REQ_UNPLUG
cfq-iosched: kill two unused cfqq flags
cfq-iosched: change dispatch logic to deal with single requests at the time
mflash: initial support
cciss: change to discover first memory BAR
cciss: kernel scan thread for MSA2012
cciss: fix residual count for block pc requests
block: fix inconsistency in I/O stat accounting code
block: elevator quiescing helpers
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (36 commits)
ALSA: hda - Add VREF powerdown sequence for another board
ALSA: oss - volume control for CSWITCH and CROUTE
ALSA: hda - add missing comma in ad1884_slave_vols
sound: usb-audio: allow period sizes less than 1 ms
sound: usb-audio: save data packet interval in audioformat structure
sound: usb-audio: remove check_hw_params_convention()
sound: usb-audio: show sample format width in proc file
ASoC: fsl_dma: Pass the proper device for dma mapping routines
ASoC: Fix null dereference in ak4535_remove()
ALSA: hda - enable SPDIF output for Intel DX58SO board
ALSA: snd-atmel-abdac: increase periods_min to 6 instead of 4
ALSA: snd-atmel-abdac: replace bus_id with dev_name()
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: replace bus_id with dev_name()
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: cleanup registers when removing driver
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: do a proper reset of the external codec
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: enable interrupts to catch events for error reporting
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: set correct size for buffer hardware parameter
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: do not overwrite OCA and ICA when assigning channels
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: remove dead break statements after return in switch case
ALSA: snd-atmel-ac97c: cleanup register definitions
...
This is a low density serial port so needs a real major/minor
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sketch file is a file to mark checkpoints with user data. It was
experimentally introduced in the original implementation, and now
obsolete. The file was handled differently with regular files; the file
size got truncated when a checkpoint was created.
This stops the special treatment and will treat it as a regular file.
Most users are not affected because mkfs.nilfs2 no longer makes this file.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a document describing the features, mount options, userland
tools, usage, disk format, and related URLs for the nilfs2 file system.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK related documentations
Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options
used by the driver.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add disable/enable_kretprobe() and disable/enable_jprobe().
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add disable_kprobe() and enable_kprobe() to disable/enable kprobes
temporarily.
disable_kprobe() asynchronously disables probe handlers of specified
kprobe. So, after calling it, some handlers can be called at a while.
enable_kprobe() enables specified kprobe.
aggr_pre_handler and aggr_post_handler check disabled probes. On the
other hand aggr_break_handler and aggr_fault_handler don't check it
because these handlers will be called while executing pre or post handlers
and usually those help error handling.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This controller can be found on the D-Link DNS-323 for instance, where
it is to be configured via static i2c_board_info in the board-specific
mach-orion/dns323-setup.c; this driver supports only the new-style
driver model.
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurie Bradshaw <bradshaw.laurie@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and
maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush
on both large and small machines.
The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or
small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best
suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While
probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large
numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit
from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices.
Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is
still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still
desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the
kernel.
The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and
'/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions.
The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is
the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required
since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself.
The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of
nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000.
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly]
Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This driver supports mflash IO mode for linux.
Mflash is embedded flash drive and mainly targeted mobile and consumer
electronic devices.
Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports 2
different operation (ATA, IO) modes. ATA mode doesn't need any new driver
and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's one
chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have
IDE interface.
Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode.
A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm,
write confirm)
B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface.
C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash.
This driver is quitely similar to a standard ATA driver, but because of
following reasons it is currently seperated with ATA layer.
1. ATA layer deals standard ATA protocol. ATA layer have many low-
level device specific interface, but data transfer keeps ATA rule.
But, mflash IO mode doesn't.
2. Even though currently not used in mflash driver code, mflash has
some custom command and modes. (nand fusing, firmware patch, etc) If
this feature supported in linux kernel, ATA layer more altered.
3. Currently PATA platform device driver doesn't support interrupt.
(I'm not sure) But, mflash uses interrupt (polling mode is just for
debug).
4. mflash is somewhat under-develop product. Even though some company
already using mflash their own product, I think more time is needed for
standardization of custom command and mode. That time (maybe October)
I will talk to with ATA people. If they accept integration, I will
integrate.
Signed-off-by: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
b44: Use kernel DMA addresses for the kernel DMA API
forcedeth: Fix resume from hibernation regression.
xfrm: fix fragmentation on inter family tunnels
ibm_newemac: Fix dangerous struct assumption
gigaset: documentation update
gigaset: in file ops, check for device disconnect before anything else
bas_gigaset: use tasklet_hi_schedule for timing critical tasklets
net/802/fddi.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
smsc911x: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
axnet_cs: fix phy_id detection for bogus Asix chip.
bnx2: Use request_firmware()
b44: Fix sizes passed to b44_sync_dma_desc_for_{device,cpu}()
socket: use percpu_add() while updating sockets_in_use
virtio_net: Set the mac config only when VIRITO_NET_F_MAC
myri_sbus: use request_firmware
e1000: fix loss of multicast packets
vxge: should include tcp.h
Conflict in firmware/WHENCE (SCSI vs net firmware)
The functions v4l2_i2c_new_subdev and v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev relied on
i2c_get_adapdata to return the v4l2_device. However, this is not always
possible on embedded platforms. So modify the API to pass the v4l2_device
pointer explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Now that all drivers are converted to v4l2_subdev we can remove legacy code
in v4l2-common. Also move the documentation of the internal API to
v4l2-subdev.h where it really belongs.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
If usb_interface.dev is used as dev parameter for v4l2_device_register
v4l2_dev.name contains the v4l driver/module name and usb device and
interface instead of a simple "usb x-y".
It also matches the recommendation to set the parent devices for usb
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
The DMA transfers in pxa_camera showed some weaknesses in
multiple queued buffers context :
- poll/select problem
The bug shows up with capture_example tool from v4l2 hg
tree. The process just "stalls" on a "select timeout".
- multiple buffers DMA starting
When multiple buffers were queued, the DMA channels were
always started right away. This is not optimal, as a
special case appears when the first EOF was not yet
reached, and the DMA channels were prematurely started.
- Maintainability
DMA code was a bit obfuscated. Rationalize the code to be
easily maintainable by anyone.
- DMA hot chaining
DMA is not stopped anymore to queue a buffer, the buffer
is queued with DMA running. As a tribute, a corner case
exists where chaining happens while DMA finishes the
chain, and the capture is restarted to deal with the
missed link buffer.
This patch attemps to address these issues / improvements.
create mode 100644 Documentation/video4linux/pxa_camera.txt
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Update, correct and clarify instructions for loading the driver
and for setting the UNDOCREQ kernel configuration option.
Impact: documentation
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (53 commits)
[MTD] struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
[MTD] [NOR] Fixup for Numonyx M29W128 chips
[MTD] mtdpart: Make ecc_stats more realistic.
powerpc/85xx: TQM8548: Update DTS file for multi-chip support
powerpc: NAND: FSL UPM: document new bindings
[MTD] [NAND] FSL-UPM: Add wait flags to support board/chip specific delays
[MTD] [NAND] FSL-UPM: add multi chip support
[MTD] [NOR] Add device parent info to physmap_of
[MTD] [NAND] Add support for NAND on the Socrates board
[MTD] [NAND] Add support for 4KiB pages.
[MTD] sysfs support should not depend on CONFIG_PROC_FS
[MTD] [NAND] Add parent info for CAFÉ controller
[MTD] support driver model updates
[MTD] driver model updates (part 2)
[MTD] driver model updates
[MTD] [NAND] move gen_nand's probe function to .devinit.text
[MTD] [MAPS] move sa1100 flash's probe function to .devinit.text
[MTD] fix use after free in register_mtd_blktrans
[MTD] [MAPS] Drop now unused sharpsl-flash map
[MTD] ofpart: Check name property to determine partition nodes.
...
Manually fix trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/maps/Makefile
As noted by Janne Grunau it would be good if the date was also right.
(Web site also resynched)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move entries to be in alpha order as specified near the beginning
of this file.
Clean up some whitespace and line-length miscues.
Add '=' to "selinux" option syntax.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix docbook fatal error:
docproc: block/blktrace.c: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (81 commits)
nfsd41: define nfsd4_set_statp as noop for !CONFIG_NFSD_V4
nfsd41: define NFSD_DRC_SIZE_SHIFT in set_max_drc
nfsd41: Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
nfsd41: CREATE_EXCLUSIVE4_1
nfsd41: SUPPATTR_EXCLCREAT attribute
nfsd41: support for 3-word long attribute bitmask
nfsd: dynamically skip encoded fattr bitmap in _nfsd4_verify
nfsd41: pass writable attrs mask to nfsd4_decode_fattr
nfsd41: provide support for minor version 1 at rpc level
nfsd41: control nfsv4.1 svc via /proc/fs/nfsd/versions
nfsd41: add OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WANT nfs4_stateid bmap
nfsd41: access_valid
nfsd41: clientid handling
nfsd41: check encode size for sessions maxresponse cached
nfsd41: stateid handling
nfsd: pass nfsd4_compound_state* to nfs4_preprocess_{state,seq}id_op
nfsd41: destroy_session operation
nfsd41: non-page DRC for solo sequence responses
nfsd41: Add a create session replay cache
nfsd41: create_session operation
...
The new i2c binding model makes the client_register and
client_unregister methods of struct i2c_adapter useless, so we can
remove them with the rest of the legacy model.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Add bindings to support LEDs defined as of_platform devices in addition to
the existing bindings for platform devices.
New options in Kconfig allow the platform binding code and/or the
of_platform code to be turned on. The of_platform code is of course only
available on archs that have OF support.
The existing probe and remove methods are refactored to use new functions
create_gpio_led(), to create and register one led, and delete_gpio_led(),
to unregister and free one led. The new probe and remove methods for the
of_platform driver can then share most of the common probe and remove code
with the platform driver.
The suspend and resume methods aren't shared, but they are very short. The
actual led driving code is the same for LEDs created by either binding.
The OF bindings are based on patch by Anton Vorontsov
<avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>. They have been extended to allow multiple LEDs
per device.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
This patch adds documentation for the new NAND FSL UPM bindings for:
NAND: FSL-UPM: add multi chip support
NAND: FSL-UPM: Add wait flags to support board/chip specific delays
It also documents the old binding for "chip-delay".
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (23 commits)
sh: sh7785lcr: Map whole PCI address space.
sh: Fix up DSP context save/restore.
sh: Fix up number of on-chip DMA channels on SH7091.
sh: update defconfigs.
sh: Kill off broken direct-mapped cache mode.
sh: Wire up ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE for cpuidle.
sh: Add a command line option for disabling I/O trapping.
sh: Select ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE.
sh: migor: Fix up CEU use flags.
input: migor_ts: add wakeup support
rtc: rtc-sh: use set_irq_wake()
input: sh_keysc: use enable/disable_irq_wake()
sh: intc: set_irq_wake() support
sh: intc: install enable, disable and shutdown callbacks
clocksource: sh_cmt: use remove_irq() and remove clockevent workaround
sh: ap325 and Migo-R use new sh_mobile_ceu_info flags
sh: Fix up -Wformat-security whining.
sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support, again.
sh: Sanitize asm/mmu.h for assembly use.
sh: Tidy up sh7786 pinmux table.
...
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
blktrace: extract duplidate code
blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
blktrace: make classic output more classic
blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
blktrace: fix the original blktrace
blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
include/linux/memory.h
kernel/extable.c
kernel/module.c
* 'core/debugobjects' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: delay free of internal objects
debugobjects: replace static objects when slab cache becomes available
debug_objects: add boot-parameter toggle to turn object debugging off again
Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not
supported.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Refactor and redesign the brightness control backend...
In order to fix bugzilla #11750...
Add a new brightness control mode: support direct NVRAM checkpointing
of the backlight level (i.e. store directly to NVRAM without the need
for UCMS calls), and use that together with the EC-based control.
Disallow UCMS+EC, thus avoiding races with the SMM firmware.
Switch the models that define HBRV (EC Brightness Value) in the DSDT
to the new mode. These are: T40-T43, R50-R52, R50e, R51e, X31-X41.
Change the default for all other IBM ThinkPads to UCMS-only. The
Lenovo models already default to UCMS-only.
Reported-by: Alexey Fisher <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for the fan subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Enhance debugging messages for all rfkill subdrivers in thinkpad-acpi.
Also, log a warning if the deprecated sysfs attributes are in use.
These attributes are going to be removed sometime in 2010.
There is an user-visible side-effect: we now coalesce attempts to
enable/disable bluetooth or WWAN in the procfs interface, instead of
hammering the firmware with multiple requests.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some of the ThinkPad LEDs indicate critical conditions that can cause
data loss or cause hardware damage when ignored (e.g. force-ejecting
a powered up bay; ignoring a failing battery, or empty battery; force-
undocking with the dock buses still active, etc).
On almost all ThinkPads, LED access is write-only, and the firmware
usually does fire-and-forget signaling on them, so you effectively
lose whatever message the firmware was trying to convey to the user
when you override the LED state, without any chance to restore it.
Restrict access to all LEDs that can convey important alarms, or that
could mislead the user into incorrectly operating the hardware. This
will make the Lenovo engineers less unhappy about the whole issue.
Allow users that really want it to still control all LEDs, it is the
unaware user that we have to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
