Re: ThinkPad T480s & thinkpad_acpi.ko

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jun 08 2018 - 05:40:43 EST


On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi! I just found out that thinkpad_acpi.ko is not automatically loaded
> on new ThinkPad T480s. Is there any reason for it? Manually calling
> modprobe thinkpad_acpi is working fine, but I would expect that it
> should be loaded automatically.
>
> Here is dmesg output after loading it manually:
>
> thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.25
> thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
> thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS N22ET34W (1.11 ), EC unknown
> thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T480s, model 20L7S03000
> thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
> thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
> thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default...
> thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
> thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one

Did you run depmod -a?
Is it present in the output?

There are three ways of enumeration as far as I can see from the driver's code:
- by short driver name "tpacpi" (not likely our case)
- by DMI matching (only for old BIOS'es)
- by ACPI ID

So, does the ACPI contain one of the listed IDs?

#define TPACPI_ACPI_IBM_HKEY_HID "IBM0068"
#define TPACPI_ACPI_LENOVO_HKEY_HID "LEN0068"
#define TPACPI_ACPI_LENOVO_HKEY_V2_HID "LEN0268"
?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko