Comment 9 for bug 281977

For newer thinkpads only the tp-smapi module works. For various personal/political reasons, it can not be included in the mainline kernel, and ubuntu doesn't want to maintain a kernel patch that is unlikely to make it into the kernel. The "right" place to get this fixed is in the mainline kernel. The discussion leading to this decision is in bug 297213 and on the mailing list following the post https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2009-April/005545.html .

I'm marking this as a won't fix, since it is really the same bug as bug 297213.