On 06/30/2009 07:26 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > ACPI docking stations are mildly complicated creatures that require the > OS to handle part of the undocking process. We're currently doing this > entirely within the kernel, but this has the significant downside that > there's no way to handle cleanly unmounting any block devices that are > contained within the dock - they'll simply vanish. > > I've been working with David Zeuthen to flesh out proper desktop support > for this, and we're now at the point where there's not a great deal of > code to write to get this working cleanly. Unfortunately this requires a > certain level of integration between the kernel and the desktop - > something has to prompt the user about unmounting the device and then > trigger the completion of the undock. The kernel still handles the > actual ACPI execution, but policy now lives in the desktop. Where exactly in the desktop and can that be a library? Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
