APPLIED Re: [PATCH 0/2][SRU][OEM-5.10] Thinkpad - add palm sensor support needed for WWAN

Timo Aaltonen tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 21 10:51:18 UTC 2021


On 16.1.2021 5.00, Alex Hung wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1912033
> 
> [Impact]
>    Add new palm sensor supports to Lenovo Thinkpad systems
> 
> [Fix]
>    thinkpad_acpi is updated to check palm sensor presence and its events
> 
> [Test]
>    Tested on Thinkpad systems
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
>    Low risks. Only thinkpad systems are affected. Also thinkpad systems without palm sensor
>    and without TP_HKEY_EV_PALM_DETECTED & TP_HKEY_EV_PALM_UNDETECTED events won't
>    be affected either.
> 
>    There can an issue as discussed in commit log of "thinkpad_acpi: Add palm sensor support"
> 
>      Note: On some platforms, because of an issue in the HW implementation,
>      the palm sensor presence may be incorrectly advertised as always
>      enabled even if a palm sensor is not present. The palm sensor is
>      intended for WWAN transmission power control and should be available
>      and correct on all WWAN enabled systems. It is not recommended to use
>      this interface for other use cases.
> 
> 
>    Note: "thinkpad_acpi: Add palm sensor support" was cherry-picked from mainline, and
>    "thinkpad_acpi: correct palmsensor error checking" is cherry-picked from maintainer's
>    tree (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git)
> 
> Mark Pearson (2):
>    platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Add palm sensor support
>    platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: correct palmsensor error checking
> 
>   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
> 

applied to oem-5.10, thanks

careful with the brackets, btw ;)


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