On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:36:52 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Holger Macht wrote: > > those ThinkPads where it is needed. Afterwards it does the corresponding > > dock/undock request on ibm_acpi. And this works reliably good what I can > > see from the feedback I already got. But for this to work, userspace would > > It should work with the generic bay device too, but I have no ideas about > dock. But you'll need to deal with udev with the new bay device, something > I am not too happy about. These things are ACPI events, they should remain > so unless all other ACPI events are going to become uevents. So ACPI is just a mechanism - an implementation detail in the kernel. I don't think we should have special ACPI events to deal with bay/dock activity. If for whatever reason we ever dock something without using ACPI, we can make this transparent to userspace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
