On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote: > I'm currently looking at docking station support for various > laptops/vendors and what can be done to get them working. At the moment, > userspace has to do some quirks to get support for them. For instance, > when docking an X60 into a docking station where a SATA DVD drive is > located, userland has to rescan the scsi host for the drive to show up. Does the docking not generate a bus rescan event on the SATA bus? If it does, it's just a special case of ACPI drive hotplugging. You can't do it reliably from userspace, but I think Kirsten has been looking at doing it properly in the kernel. > Additionally, currently the dock driver automatically executes the _DCK > method when it detects a dock/undock event. Wouldn't it be good to have > common sysfs interface for docking so that userland can trigger the > dock/undock? This way userland would also be able to do 'something before' > docking/undocking, such as unregistering a device, showing a poput that it > is now save to physically undock, etc. When the dock contains a drive, I think there's possibly an argument in favour of this. Otherwise, the hardware should be able to deal with it - every ACPI-based dock I've played with has had some indication to inform the user that the device has disconnected. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
