ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add CMOS NVRAM polling for hot keys (v9)

Older ThinkPad models do not export some of the hot keys over the
event-based ACPI hot key interface.  For these models, one has to poll
the CMOS NVRAM to check the key state at a rate faster than the expected
rate at which the user might repeatedly press the same hot key.

This patch implements this functionality for many of the hotkeys in a
transparent way: hot keys will now Just Work, and the driver knows the
best approach (events or NVRAM polling) to employ, based on the
HKEY.MHKA ACPI method.

Also, the driver can turn off the polling when there are no users for
the hot keys that need such polling.

The NVRAM-based hot keys of the A3x series that have never been
implemented by later models are not supported, to avoid changes in the
keymap of the input devices that could cause headaches in the future.

There is a Kconfig option to avoid compiling the NVRAM polling code, as
it is not very small, and unlikely to be useful on any ThinkPad newer
than a T40, X31 or R52.

This feature is based on a previous effort by Richard Hughes.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 10c041ca13c7..70d91a52e0ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file:
         ... any other 8-hex-digit mask ...
         echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the original mask
 
+The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control.  So as to
+maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks,
+nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware
+does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use.
+
 sysfs notes:
 
         hotkey_bios_enabled:
@@ -231,17 +236,26 @@ sysfs notes:
                 to this value.
 
         hotkey_enable:
-                Enables/disables the hot keys feature, and reports
-                current status of the hot keys feature.
+                Enables/disables the hot keys feature in the ACPI
+                firmware, and reports current status of the hot keys
+                feature.  Has no effect on the NVRAM hot key polling
+                functionality.
 
                 0: disables the hot keys feature / feature disabled
                 1: enables the hot keys feature / feature enabled
 
         hotkey_mask:
-                bit mask to enable driver-handling and ACPI event
-                generation for each hot key (see above).  Returns the
-                current status of the hot keys mask, and allows one to
-                modify it.
+                bit mask to enable driver-handling (and depending on
+                the firmware, ACPI event generation) for each hot key
+                (see above).  Returns the current status of the hot keys
+                mask, and allows one to modify it.
+
+                Note: when NVRAM polling is active, the firmware mask
+                will be different from the value returned by
+                hotkey_mask.  The driver will retain enabled bits for
+                hotkeys that are under NVRAM polling even if the
+                firmware refuses them, and will not set these bits on
+                the firmware hot key mask.
 
         hotkey_all_mask:
                 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
@@ -257,6 +271,40 @@ sysfs notes:
                 handled by the firmware anyway.  Echo it to
                 hotkey_mask above, to use.
 
+        hotkey_source_mask:
+                bit mask that selects which hot keys will the driver
+                poll the NVRAM for.  This is auto-detected by the driver
+                based on the capabilities reported by the ACPI firmware,
+                but it can be overridden at runtime.
+
+                Hot keys whose bits are set in both hotkey_source_mask
+                and also on hotkey_mask are polled for in NVRAM.  Only a
+                few hot keys are available through CMOS NVRAM polling.
+
+                Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
+                keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
+                so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute,
+                as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface.  When
+                in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as
+                separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in
+                future releases of this driver, in which case the
+                ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semanthics will be
+                enforced.
+
+        hotkey_poll_freq:
+                frequency in Hz for hot key polling. It must be between
+                0 and 25 Hz.  Polling is only carried out when strictly
+                needed.
+
+                Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and
+                will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling
+                to never be reported.
+
+                Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low will cause repeated
+                pressings of the same hot key to be misreported as a
+                single key press, or to not even be detected at all.
+                The recommended polling frequency is 10Hz.
+
         hotkey_radio_sw:
                 if the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this
                 attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios
@@ -1263,3 +1311,14 @@ Sysfs interface changelog:
                 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
                 compatibility.  Moved all hwmon attributes to this
                 new platform device.
+
+0x020100:       Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
+                support.  If you must, use it to know you should not
+                start an userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
+                NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
+                unneeded/undesired in the first place).
+0x020101:       Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
+                and proper hotkey_mask semanthics (version 8 of the
+                NVRAM polling patch).  Some development snapshots of
+                0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
+                to hotkey_mask.