ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve fan control documentation

Improve fan control documentation and fix one mistake.

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 bca50d7..e3ad7a4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -795,15 +795,23 @@ Sysfs notes:
 The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
 part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
 
+Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
+that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
+is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden.  They may also return
+EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
+to the firmware).
+
+Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
+
 hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
        0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
        1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
        2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
        3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
 
-       Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the driver
-       is not always able to detect this.  If it does know a mode is
-       unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
+       Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
+       driver is not always able to detect this.  If it does know a
+       mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
 
 hwmon device attribute pwm1:
        Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
@@ -826,8 +834,8 @@ driver attribute fan_watchdog:
 To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
 
 To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2.  If that fails
-with ENOTSUP, set it to 1 and set pwm1 to at least 128 (255 would be the
-safest choice, though).
+with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
+would be the safest choice, though).
 
 
 EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan