linux/Documentation/laptops
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2586d5663d thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionality
The HKEY disable functionality basically cripples the entire event
model of the ThinkPad firmware and of the thinkpad-acpi driver.
Remove this functionality from the driver.  HKEY must be enabled at
all times while thinkpad-acpi is loaded, and disabled otherwise.

For sysfs, according to the sysfs ABI and the thinkpad-acpi sysfs
rules of engagement, we will just remove the attributes.  This will be
done in two stages: disable their function now, after two kernel
releases, remove the attributes.

For procfs, we call WARN().  If nothing triggers it, I will simply
remove the enable/disable commands entirely in the future along with
the sysfs attributes.

I don't expect much, if any fallout from this.  There really isn't any
reason to mess with hotkey_enable or with the enable/disable commands
to /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey, and this has been true for years...

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04 03:14:52 -04:00
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00-INDEX laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ 2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
acer-wmi.txt acer-wmi: Remove wireless and bluetooth sysfs entries 2008-10-08 16:56:04 -04:00
disk-shock-protection.txt ata: Add documentation for hard disk shock protection interface (v3) 2008-10-13 21:39:50 +02:00
laptop-mode.txt laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ 2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
sony-laptop.txt sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptops 2008-02-09 04:15:40 -05:00
sonypi.txt sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops 2008-02-09 04:15:53 -05:00
thinkpad-acpi.txt thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionality 2009-04-04 03:14:52 -04:00