linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Implement tablet mode resolving using GMMS method

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VcYD76Huyxx=8dtQ9-8-OFWUu7JpGO0gP_17HNCD6FUpw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 1 Oct 2017 16:06:03 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Berg <bberg@...hat.com>,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter FP1 Zhang <zhangfp1@...ovo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Implement tablet mode resolving using GMMS method

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
>>
>> On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 15:20 +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
>>> Many thinkpad laptops and convertibles provide the GMMS method to
>>> resolve how far the laptop has been opened and whether it has been
>>> converted into tablet mode. This allows reporting a more precise tablet
>>> mode state to userspace.
>>>
>>> The current implementation only reports a summarized tablet mode state
>>> which is triggered as soon as the input devices become unusable as they
>>> are folded away from the display.
>>>
>>> This will work on all models where the CMMD method was used previously and
>>> it may also work in other cases.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Peter Zhang of Lenovo for providing information on how to use the
>>> GMMS method to query the tablet mode.
>
> I dunno why this one didn't appear in our patchwork database.
> I'll go to apply manually soon.
> Sorry for the delay.

Okay, now pushed to my testing queue.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko