[Lucid] SRU: Backport of latest thinkpad-acpi driver

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Mar 31, Stefan Bader wrote:
> As we were asked to make the HW mixer for Thinkpads availave to user-space
> in Lucid. This requires unfortunately a major backport of the driver itself.
> On the good side we were able to test the new driver on a range of ThinkPads
> and have seen any regression yet. And all the changes are limited to this
> single subsystem driver.
> 
> Note: When applying the config update, it probably needs a updateconfigs.
> Not sure, but I did that a bit ago.
> 
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu |    1 
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig              |   23 
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c      | 1217 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 983 insertions(+), 258 deletions(-)
> 
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Patches only touch one file - thinkpad-acpi.c and we have *many* thinkpad
users to give feedback and have already done so on the bug.

Acked-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at canonical.com>

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