ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update brightness sysfs interface support
Update the brightness sysfs interface (done through the backlight class) to be in line with the rest of the thinkpad-acpi driver. This renames the incorrect, un-obvious, and clash-prone name of "ibm" for the backlight device to a much more fitting and descriptive "thinkpad_screen". This is something I wanted to do for quite a while... Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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@ -611,19 +611,59 @@ registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
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with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
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a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
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LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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LCD brightness control
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procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
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This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
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models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. The available
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commands are:
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models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
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It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned on or off
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by this interface, and in many ThinkPad models, the "dim while on battery"
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functionality will be enabled by the BIOS when this interface is used, and
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cannot be controlled.
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The backlight control has eight levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the
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levels may not be distinct.
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Procfs notes:
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The available commands are:
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echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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The <level> number range is 0 to 7, although not all of them may be
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distinct. The current brightness level is shown in the file.
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Sysfs notes:
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The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is poorly
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documented at this time.
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Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside it
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there will be the following attributes:
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max_brightness:
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Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
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The minimum is always zero.
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actual_brightness:
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Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
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brightness:
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Writes request the driver to change brightness to the given
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value. Reads will tell you what brightness the driver is trying
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to set the display to when "power" is set to zero and the display
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has not been dimmed by a kernel power management event.
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power:
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power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3 will
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dim the display backlight to brightness level 0 because
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thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight off. Kernel
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power management events can temporarily increase the current
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power management level, i.e. they can dim the display.
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Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
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@ -2414,8 +2414,9 @@ static int __init brightness_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
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if (b < 0)
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return b;
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ibm_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("ibm", NULL, NULL,
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&ibm_backlight_data);
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ibm_backlight_device = backlight_device_register(
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TPACPI_BACKLIGHT_DEV_NAME, NULL, NULL,
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&ibm_backlight_data);
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if (IS_ERR(ibm_backlight_device)) {
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printk(IBM_ERR "Could not register backlight device\n");
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return PTR_ERR(ibm_backlight_device);
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* Brightness (backlight) subdriver
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*/
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#define TPACPI_BACKLIGHT_DEV_NAME "thinkpad_screen"
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static struct backlight_device *ibm_backlight_device;
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static int brightness_offset = 0x31;
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