1 From 2fe6dffabb06bfa0591c8c490b092b458fba1f06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
3 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:15:54 +0200
4 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentation
6 As this module is now part of the kernel tree, there is no need
7 for instructions on how to download it and build an external module.
9 Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
10 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
12 Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 35 +----------------------------------
13 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
15 diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
16 index 00b8cf3..e50595b 100644
17 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
18 +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt
19 @@ -53,40 +53,7 @@ Installation
21 If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
22 sources, simply enable the CONFIG_ACPI_IBM option (Power Management /
23 -ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras). The rest of this section describes
24 -how to install this driver when downloaded from the web site.
26 -First, you need to get a kernel with ACPI support up and running.
27 -Please refer to http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ for help with this
28 -step. How successful you will be depends a lot on you ThinkPad model,
29 -the kernel you are using and any additional patches applied. The
30 -kernel provided with your distribution may not be good enough. I
31 -needed to compile a 2.6.7 kernel with the 20040715 ACPI patch to get
32 -ACPI working reliably on my ThinkPad X40. Old ThinkPad models may not
35 -Assuming you have the basic ACPI support working (e.g. you can see the
36 -/proc/acpi directory), follow the following steps to install this
39 - - unpack the archive:
41 - tar xzvf ibm-acpi-x.y.tar.gz; cd ibm-acpi-x.y
43 - - compile the driver:
47 - - install the module in your kernel modules directory:
55 -After loading the module, check the "dmesg" output for any error messages.
57 +ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras).