On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:46:27PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:37:17PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > The fact that the dock starts to beep annoyingly. It has a button that > > you should press before undocking, and wait for a green light to light > > up before removing the laptop. If you remove the computer without > > doing so, the dock starts beeping, and it doesn't stop (AFAIK, haven't > > managed to stand the beeping for more than 30 seconds or so) until you > > replug the laptop. > > Ah, hm. Interesting. Maybe it does want OS support, then. Have you tried > it in the Leading Brand OS? Nope. > > My guess is that there is some wait to trigger an undock event from > > software as well, and that it would be nice to send that signal to the > > dock before suspending... > > You possibly don't want to do that if there's a mounted bay device in > the dock. Well, right now I don't have a bay device in the dock, but refusing to suspend in that case would be reasonable. I need to add some hotplug script for the bay device anyway if I add one. > We really need to determine some sort of policy when it comes to mounted > devices that will potentially be removed by the user over > suspend/resume. Do we support this configuration (by not killing the > mount point), or do we prevent users from shooting themselves in the > foot? Good question. Personally I'd say we refuse to suspend when we have devices we *know* to be dock-devices etc mounted. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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
