On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:15 pm, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:05, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100 > > > > Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Well, I like to have them ;-) > > > > Ok - how is this? > > > > Send a uevent to indicate a device change whenever we dock or > > undock, so that userspace may now check the dock status via > > sysfs. > > I would like to have two different events for dock and undock. > > This way the userspace listener don't need to check the status file > in sysfs to know if there was a dock or undock after getting the > event. > > Anyway the status file is still usefull for programs don't react on > the events, but like to know if the laptop is docked before starting > for example. FWIW, Kay and Neil recently went back and forth regarding what sorts of events to generate for MD online/offline events. In concept md online/offline and dock/undock seem similar enough that the 'change' events Kay requested for md probably make sense in the dock/undock context as well, but I've Cc'd him just in case. Jesse - 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
