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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt | 38 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt b/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 38040fa37649..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,38 +0,0 @@ -driver/acpi/hotkey.c implement: -1. /proc/acpi/hotkey/event_config -(event based hotkey or event config interface): -a. add a event based hotkey(event) : -echo "0:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config - -b. delete a event based hotkey(event): -echo "1:::::num:num" > event_config - -c. modify a event based hotkey(event): -echo "2:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config - -2. /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_config -(polling based hotkey or event config interface): -a.add a polling based hotkey(event) : -echo "0:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config -this adding command will create a proc file -/proc/acpi/hotkey/method, which is used to get -result of polling. - -b.delete a polling based hotkey(event): -echo "1:::::num" > event_config - -c.modify a polling based hotkey(event): -echo "2:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config - -3./proc/acpi/hotkey/action -(interface to call aml method associated with a -specific hotkey(event)) -echo "event_num:event_type:event_argument" > - /proc/acpi/hotkey/action. -The result of the execution of this aml method is -attached to /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_method, which is dynamically -created. Please use command "cat /proc/acpi/hotkey/polling_method" -to retrieve it. - -Note: Use cmdline "acpi_generic_hotkey" to over-ride -platform-specific with generic driver. diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fa844fd7bded..7dec8e0193c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -246,29 +246,6 @@ Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> --------------------------- -<<<<<<< test:Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt -What: ACPI hotkey driver (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY) -When: 2.6.21 -Why: hotkey.c was an attempt to consolidate multiple drivers that use - ACPI to implement hotkeys. However, hotkeys are not documented - in the ACPI specification, so the drivers used undocumented - vendor-specific hooks and turned out to be more different than - the same. - - Further, the keys and the features supplied by each platform - are different, so there will always be a need for - platform-specific drivers. - - So the new plan is to delete hotkey.c and instead, work on the - platform specific drivers to try to make them look the same - to the user when they supply the same features. - - hotkey.c has always depended on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - -Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for |