On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:36:52 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Holger Macht wrote: > > those ThinkPads where it is needed. Afterwards it does the corresponding > > dock/undock request on ibm_acpi. And this works reliably good what I can > > see from the feedback I already got. But for this to work, userspace would > > It should work with the generic bay device too, but I have no ideas about > dock. But you'll need to deal with udev with the new bay device, something > I am not too happy about. These things are ACPI events, they should remain > so unless all other ACPI events are going to become uevents. So ACPI is just a mechanism - an implementation detail in the kernel. I don't think we should have special ACPI events to deal with bay/dock activity. If for whatever reason we ever dock something without using ACPI, we can make this transparent to userspace. - 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
