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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt index fe26e50a2b15..7a06a27ee37b 100644 --- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -134,6 +134,21 @@ end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this attribute. +Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered +non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which +point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version +may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet +sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features +may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by +the time they are merged in Linux mainline. + +Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of +attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not +always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must +expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly +(an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a +feature is not available in sysfs). + Hot keys -------- @@ -989,3 +1004,5 @@ Sysfs interface changelog: 0x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and device. +0x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch + support. diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c index 3cf37bb55e9a..4d7189330ec1 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ */ #define IBM_VERSION "0.14" -#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x000100 +#define TPACPI_SYSFS_VERSION 0x000200 /* * Changelog: |