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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt | 37 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt index 23ce7d350d1a..2bd4e82e5d9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt | |||
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are | |||
14 | reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT | 14 | reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT |
15 | subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and | 15 | subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and |
16 | /proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input | 16 | /proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input |
17 | devices are created by the driver. | 17 | devices are created by the driver. Additionally, loading the driver with the |
18 | debug option will report all events in the kernel log. | ||
18 | 19 | ||
19 | Backlight control: | 20 | Backlight control: |
20 | ------------------ | 21 | ------------------ |
@@ -64,6 +65,16 @@ powers off the sound card, | |||
64 | # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower | 65 | # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/audiopower |
65 | powers on the sound card. | 66 | powers on the sound card. |
66 | 67 | ||
68 | |||
69 | RFkill control: | ||
70 | --------------- | ||
71 | More recent Vaio models expose a consistent set of ACPI methods to | ||
72 | control radio frequency emitting devices. If you are a lucky owner of | ||
73 | such a laptop you will find the necessary rfkill devices under | ||
74 | /sys/class/rfkill. Check those starting with sony-* in | ||
75 | # grep . /sys/class/rfkill/*/{state,name} | ||
76 | |||
77 | |||
67 | Development: | 78 | Development: |
68 | ------------ | 79 | ------------ |
69 | 80 | ||
@@ -75,8 +86,21 @@ pass the option 'debug=1'. | |||
75 | REPEAT: DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE RISKY BUSINESS. | 86 | REPEAT: DON'T DO THIS IF YOU DON'T LIKE RISKY BUSINESS. |
76 | 87 | ||
77 | In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods | 88 | In your kernel logs you will find the list of all ACPI methods |
78 | the SNC device has on your laptop. You can see the GCDP/GCDP methods | 89 | the SNC device has on your laptop. |
79 | used to pwer on/off the CD drive, but there are others. | 90 | |
91 | * For new models you will see a long list of meaningless method names, | ||
92 | reading the DSDT table source should reveal that: | ||
93 | (1) the SNC device uses an internal capability lookup table | ||
94 | (2) SN00 is used to find values in the lookup table | ||
95 | (3) SN06 and SN07 are used to call into the real methods based on | ||
96 | offsets you can obtain iterating the table using SN00 | ||
97 | (4) SN02 used to enable events. | ||
98 | Some values in the capability lookup table are more or less known, see | ||
99 | the code for all sony_call_snc_handle calls, others are more obscure. | ||
100 | |||
101 | * For old models you can see the GCDP/GCDP methods used to pwer on/off | ||
102 | the CD drive, but there are others and they are usually different from | ||
103 | model to model. | ||
80 | 104 | ||
81 | I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE METHODS DO. | 105 | I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THOSE METHODS DO. |
82 | 106 | ||
@@ -108,9 +132,8 @@ Bugs/Limitations: | |||
108 | laptop, including permanent damage. | 132 | laptop, including permanent damage. |
109 | 133 | ||
110 | * The sony-laptop and sonypi drivers do not interact at all. In the | 134 | * The sony-laptop and sonypi drivers do not interact at all. In the |
111 | future, sonypi could use sony-laptop to do (part of) its business. | 135 | future, sonypi will be removed and replaced by sony-laptop. |
112 | 136 | ||
113 | * spicctrl, which is the userspace tool used to communicate with the | 137 | * spicctrl, which is the userspace tool used to communicate with the |
114 | sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the | 138 | sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) is deprecated as well since all |
115 | sony-laptop driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first, | 139 | its features are now available under the sysfs tree via sony-laptop. |
116 | and if it isn't present, try sony-laptop instead. | ||