Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> There is one question though that was never answered: Is there any >> interaction needed from the userspace when docking/undocking? Something > > Yes. umount filesystems on any device in the dock, and issue the "power off > dock" command (i.e. tell the kernel to *eject* the dock). This is *very* > important, although the ThinkPad firmware/hardware will _try_ to protect the > electronics if you just pull the laptop off the dock while it is still > powered (but it might just not be able to do it, so Don't Do That!). > > Anyway, if your dock led is going off before you remove the laptop from the > dock, you're doing everything correctly as far as the hardware is concerned. > > And the kernel will scream bloody murder if you remove a device with live > filesystems in it, so it should be trivial to check if that part is being > taken care of by your userspace as well. Not that something like this would > be an excuse to fail to suspend/resume after being undocked, mind you. To undock, I press the button on the dock, the led blinks a couple times and turns green (also, dmesg tells me that all USB devices have been removed and they indeed stop functioning). Then I take the laptop out of the dock. Because the X61 lacks a CDROM drive, I bought a bay CDROM drive along with the UltraBase. But there is no CDROM inside it (so no mounted filesystems). I also have an USB keyboard and mouse plugged into the USB slots in the dock. So it seems the kernel *should* take care of those things without any userspace interaction. I just tested suspend/resume with the CDROM drive removed (an empty bay). Suspend/resume now works just fine, regardless how I dock/undock the laptop. Anyway, regarding the additional patches, which tree can I pull them from? (I'm eager to test them, I very much want my dock to work properly) thanks tom -- 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
