sony-laptop: update documentation and Kconfig help (3d2b8a9f) · Commits · e / devices / android_kernel_teracube_2e

Documentation/sony-laptop.txt

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		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:
		------------------
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		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
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		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:
		-----------------

drivers/misc/Kconfig

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		depends on X86 && ACPI
		select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
		---help---
		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 devices present in the ACPI
		BIOS of the Sony Vaio laptops.

		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
		It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities like Bluetooth,
		screen brightness control, Fn keys and allows powering on/off some
		devices.

		Read <file:Documentation/sony-laptop.txt> for more information.