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SubjectRe: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 1/1] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for status (external cover) LED
Hello Adam,

I apologise for the delay on answering you.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Adam Goode wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Adam Goode <agoode@google.com> wrote:
> > This allows the control of the red status LED, which is the dot of the "i"
> > in the word "ThinkPad" on the outside cover of newer models.
> >
> > In the manual, both this LED and the power LED are referred to as
> > the "system-status indicators" without distinction between the two, so
> > I chose "status" as the LED name.

I seem to recall this LED had an ACPI interface that was specific for
it, and allowed it to on/off/sine-wave?

> > Signed-off-by: Adam Goode <agoode@google.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/
> > thinkpad_acpi.c
> > index cacb43fb1df7..6577bf8e5635 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> > @@ -5611,11 +5611,11 @@ static const char * const
> > tpacpi_led_names[TPACPI_LED_NUMLEDS] = {
> > "tpacpi::standby",
> > "tpacpi::dock_status1",
> > "tpacpi::dock_status2",
> > - "tpacpi::unknown_led2",
> > + "tpacpi::status",
> > "tpacpi::unknown_led3",
> > "tpacpi::thinkvantage",
> > };
> > -#define TPACPI_SAFE_LEDS 0x1081U
> > +#define TPACPI_SAFE_LEDS 0x1481U

What happens on older Lenovo models (x00, x10, x20 series?)? I think
the T410 already had it...

Also, please add code to not export it to userspace (as a led class) on
IBM.

--
Henrique Holschuh

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