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Documentation: Add file about toshiba_haps module
This patch provides information about the Toshiba HDD Active Protection Sensor driver module toshiba_haps. Signed-off-by: Azael Avalos <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
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Kernel driver toshiba_haps | ||
Toshiba HDD Active Protection Sensor | ||
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Author: Azael Avalos <[email protected]> | ||
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0. Contents | ||
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1. Description | ||
2. Interface | ||
3. Accelerometer axes | ||
4. Supported devices | ||
5. Usage | ||
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1. Description | ||
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This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various Toshiba | ||
laptops, being called "Toshiba HDD Protection - Shock Sensor" officialy, | ||
and detects laptops automatically with this device. | ||
On Windows, Toshiba provided software monitors this device and provides | ||
automatic HDD protection (head unload) on sudden moves or harsh vibrations, | ||
however, this driver only provides a notification via a sysfs file to let | ||
userspace tools or daemons act accordingly, as well as providing a sysfs | ||
file to set the desired protection level or sensor sensibility. | ||
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2. Interface | ||
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This device comes with 3 methods: | ||
_STA - Checks existence of the device, returning Zero if the device does not | ||
exists or is not supported. | ||
PTLV - Sets the desired protection level. | ||
RSSS - Shuts down the HDD protection interface for a few seconds, | ||
then restores normal operation. | ||
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Note: | ||
The presence of Solid State Drives (SSD) can make this driver to fail loading, | ||
given the fact that such drives have no movable parts, and thus, not requiring | ||
any "protection" as well as failing during the evaluation of the _STA method | ||
found under this device. | ||
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3. Accelerometer axes | ||
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This device does not report any axes, however, to query the sensor position | ||
a couple HCI (Hardware Configuration Interface) calls (0x6D and 0xA6) are | ||
provided to query such information, handled by the kernel module toshiba_acpi | ||
since kernel version 3.15. | ||
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4. Supported devices | ||
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This driver binds itself to the ACPI device TOS620A, and any Toshiba laptop | ||
with this device is supported, given the fact that they have the presence of | ||
conventional HDD and not only SSD, or a combination of both HDD and SSD. | ||
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5. Usage | ||
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The sysfs files under /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/TOS620A:00/ are: | ||
protection_level - The protection_level is readable and writeable, and | ||
provides a way to let userspace query the current protection | ||
level, as well as set the desired protection level, the | ||
available protection levels are: | ||
0 - Disabled | 1 - Low | 2 - Medium | 3 - High | ||
reset_protection - The reset_protection entry is writeable only, being "1" | ||
the only parameter it accepts, it is used to trigger | ||
a reset of the protection interface. |