It is useful to know whether your laptop is docked or not, but it is even more useful to know which docking station it's docked to. Attached patch adds "uid" file to sysfs. Tested on Dell Latitude D600 with D/Dock. Patch is against official 2.6.20 release. -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/acpi/dock.c 2007-02-04 10:44:54.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/acpi/dock.c 2007-02-19 14:43:39.000000000 -0800 @@ -659,6 +659,23 @@ } DEVICE_ATTR(undock, S_IWUSR, NULL, write_undock); +/* + * show_dock_uid - read method for "uid" file in sysfs + */ +static ssize_t show_dock_uid(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + unsigned long lbuf; + acpi_status status = acpi_evaluate_integer(dock_station->handle, "_UID", 0, &lbuf); + if(ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { + return 0; + } + return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%lx\n", lbuf); +} +DEVICE_ATTR(uid, S_IRUGO, show_dock_uid, NULL); + + + /** * dock_add - add a new dock station * @handle: the dock station handle @@ -707,6 +724,13 @@ kfree(dock_station); return ret; } + ret = device_create_file(&dock_device.dev, &dev_attr_uid); + if (ret) { + printk("Error %d adding sysfs file\n", ret); + platform_device_unregister(&dock_device); + kfree(dock_station); + return ret; + } /* Find dependent devices */ acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_DEVICE, ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,