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--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -1169,17 +1169,19 @@ may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
from 0 to 15.
-There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control,
-EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be used, use the
-brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode,
-brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
-mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered
-across shutdown/reboot).
+For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
+brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
+used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
+EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
+mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
+shutdown/reboot).
The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
+Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
+
When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native