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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t
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