Re: Regression in thinkpad-acpi events

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Natanji wrote:
> With 3.0 it was still fine, that much is for sure. The problem came 
> with the upgrade to 3.1. I've never even compiled my own kernel so I 
> cannot bisect. Sorry...

Well, please keep me in the CC.  I'm the thinkpad-acpi maintainer.

> >> This can be observed by using the acpi_listen command. For instance, no
> >> ACPI events happen when swiveling the display, and the sleep button returns
> >> 	button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000000
> >> instead of the previous
> >> 	ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004

That usually happens when you don't have thinkpad-acpi loaded at all.

Does lsmod report that thinkpad-acpi is loaded?  Are there any messages from
thinkpad-acpi in the kernel log?

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  Henrique Holschuh
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