hwmon: applesmc: fix light sensor readings on newer MacBooks

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 7:01 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c3d636...
Commit:     c3d6362b8717759de7f2086f9665a4d96cacbc51
Parent:     db92a6502d4e8cb885e85e862b24ba5c07036fbf
Author:     Alex Murray <murray.alex@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 15 13:51:08 2009 -0800
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Thu Jan 15 16:39:39 2009 -0800

    hwmon: applesmc: fix light sensor readings on newer MacBooks
    
    The light sensors ALV0 and ALV1 on newer MacBooks (early 2008 and later)
    changed to report 10 bytes instead the earlier 6, and the sensor encoding
    subsequently changed.  As a result, the reported light sensors readings
    are much too low.
    
    Via experiments leading up to this patch, it seems only the ALV0 is
    reporting data, and the most useful value therein is a 10-bit big-endian
    value at offset 6.  This suggests that a new protocol was added as a
    backward-compatible replacement on top of the old one.
    
    This patch makes applesmc report the improved light sensor reading for the
    new machines, on a scale in conformance with earlier ones.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alex Murray <murray.alex@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
    Cc: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
index dca47a5..e301862 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
@@ -590,6 +590,11 @@ static ssize_t applesmc_light_show(struct device *dev,
 	}
 
 	ret = applesmc_read_key(LIGHT_SENSOR_LEFT_KEY, buffer, data_length);
+	/* newer macbooks report a single 10-bit bigendian value */
+	if (data_length == 10) {
+		left = be16_to_cpu(*(__be16 *)(buffer + 6)) >> 2;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	left = buffer[2];
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
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