On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:57:40 +0100 Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon 13. Nov - 19:50:25, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:43:27PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote: > > > > > What I'm doing at the moment (for about a week ;-) is to echo "- - -" to > > > /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan for all unoccupied hosts on a dock > > > event. And this works pretty good. But it's of course only a workaround if > > > the scsi bus generates an event. > > > > That's just about workable for adding a device, but it loses badly for > > removing one. > > On before physically removing the laptop I did an echo 1 > > /sys/.../device/delete . That's actually the reason why I need a undock > event in userspace for now. > > > > > With recent kernel I have to unregister from the drive from userspace to > > > prevent confusion about if the drive is still there or not. > > > > Right. And that doesn't help in the case where the user undocks without > > waiting for everything to stop flashing first. Of course, in that case > > it's probably reasonable to tell the user that they lose, but we can do > > better than leaving a random drive lying around and a partially wedged > > sata bus... > > User presses lever on dock station or presses Fn+F9 on a thinkpad > generates a undock acpi event, then I'm unregistering the device, then I > trigger the undock from userspace and at this point the indicator on the > dock station turns green so the user knows that he can remove the laptop. > > Regards, > Holger Brandon is working on adding a sysfs interface to the dock driver right now. We have so far only added a read only parameter that will display the dock status, however, it is possible to add a sysfs entry that would allow the user to undock by writing to it. Brandon, can you add this to your sysfs patch? Thanks, Kristen - 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
