ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make EC-based thermal readings non-experimental

Reading the 16 thermal sensors directly from the EC has been stable for
about one year, in all supported ThinkPad models.  Remove its
"experimental" label.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 5d827ded34d1c8bc271bb278c2d990918e164e9b..3eb949e14a02c0dd7674fdd49655d5f7e0895624 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -710,23 +710,15 @@ Temperature sensors
 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
 sysfs device attributes: (hwmon) temp*_input
 
-Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but
-only expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods.
-This feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
-ThinkPads, and it has experimental support for up to sixteen different
-sensors on newer ThinkPads.
-
-EXPERIMENTAL: The 16-sensors feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the
-implementation directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as
-expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
-experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.  When EXPERIMENTAL
-mode is enabled, reading the first 8 sensors on newer ThinkPads will
-also use an new experimental thermal sensor access mode.
+Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
+expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods.  This
+feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
+ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
 
 For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
 temperatures:   42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
 
-EXPERIMENTAL: On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
+On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
 temperatures:   48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
 
 The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on

diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
index f74d7d600d83c94aa04cb26c95899370f82d026d..84a1000e4cec4e112be63dff38da8eedc2a1e686 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -2709,7 +2709,7 @@ static int __init thermal_init(struct ibm_init_struct *iibm)
 
        acpi_tmp7 = acpi_evalf(ec_handle, NULL, "TMP7", "qv");
 
-       if (thinkpad_id.ec_model && experimental) {
+       if (thinkpad_id.ec_model) {
                /*
                 * Direct EC access mode: sensors at registers
                 * 0x78-0x7F, 0xC0-0xC7.  Registers return 0x00 for