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sony-laptop: update documentation and Kconfig help

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
malattia@linux.it 18 years ago
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      Documentation/sony-laptop.txt
  2. 4 5
      drivers/misc/Kconfig

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Documentation/sony-laptop.txt

@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme
 	Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
 	Copyright (C) 2004- 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
 	Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
 	Copyright (C) 2007 Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
 
 
-This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of
-the Sony Vaio laptops.
+This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC device present in the ACPI BIOS of the
+Sony Vaio laptops. This driver mixes both devices functions under the same
+(hopefully consistent) interface. This also means that the sonypi driver is
+obsoleted by sony-laptop now.
 
 
-It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current
-form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness
-through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some devices.
+Fn keys (hotkeys):
+------------------
+Some models report hotkeys through the SNC or SPIC devices, such events are
+reported both through the ACPI subsystem as acpi events and through the INPUT
+subsystem. See the logs of acpid or /proc/acpi/event and
+/proc/bus/input/devices to find out what those events are and which input
+devices are created by the driver.
 
 
 Backlight control:
 Backlight control:
 ------------------
 ------------------
@@ -39,6 +45,8 @@ The files are:
 	audiopower		power on/off the internal sound card
 	audiopower		power on/off the internal sound card
 	lanpower		power on/off the internal ethernet card
 	lanpower		power on/off the internal ethernet card
 				(only in debug mode)
 				(only in debug mode)
+	bluetoothpower		power on/off the internal bluetooth device
+	fanspeed		get/set the fan speed
 
 
 Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported
 Note that some files may be missing if they are not supported
 by your particular laptop model.
 by your particular laptop model.
@@ -76,9 +84,9 @@ The sony-laptop driver creates, for some of those methods (the most
 current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under
 current ones found on several Vaio models), an entry under
 /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one.
 /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop, just like the 'cdpower' one.
 You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by
 You can create other entries corresponding to your own laptop methods by
-further editing the source (see the 'sony_acpi_values' table, and add a new
+further editing the source (see the 'sony_nc_values' table, and add a new
 entry to this table with your get/set method names using the
 entry to this table with your get/set method names using the
-HANDLE_NAMES macro).
+SNC_HANDLE_NAMES macro).
 
 
 Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what
 Your mission, should you accept it, is to try finding out what
 those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those
 those entries are for, by reading/writing random values from/to those
@@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ files and find out what is the impact on your laptop.
 Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me,
 Should you find anything interesting, please report it back to me,
 I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :)
 I will not disavow all knowledge of your actions :)
 
 
+See also http://www.linux.it/~malattia/wiki/index.php/Sony_drivers for other
+useful info.
+
 Bugs/Limitations:
 Bugs/Limitations:
 -----------------
 -----------------
 
 

+ 4 - 5
drivers/misc/Kconfig

@@ -112,12 +112,11 @@ config SONY_LAPTOP
 	depends on X86 && ACPI
 	depends on X86 && ACPI
 	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	  ---help---
 	  ---help---
-	  This mini-driver drives the SNC device present in the ACPI BIOS of
-	  the Sony Vaio laptops.
+	  This mini-driver drives the SNC and SPIC devices present in the ACPI
+	  BIOS of the Sony Vaio laptops.
 
 
-	  It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities. In its current
-	  form, this driver let the user set or query the screen brightness
-	  through the backlight subsystem and remove/apply power to some
+	  It gives access to some extra laptop functionalities like Bluetooth,
+	  screen brightness control, Fn keys and allows powering on/off some
 	  devices.
 	  devices.
 
 
 	  Read <file:Documentation/sony-laptop.txt> for more information.
 	  Read <file:Documentation/sony-laptop.txt> for more information.