Re: Handling dock events in userspace

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On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:52:21PM +0800, Bård Kalbakk wrote:
> Hi
> I need to handle dock events from dock.ko in order to enable video
> output on my Thinkpad Port Replicator. From the kernel I see that this
> event occurring:
> 
> [  680.551956] ACPI: \_SB_.GDCK - undocking
> [  704.534054] ACPI: \_SB_.GDCK - docking
> 
> 
> The question is, how can I handle this event in userspace? I've tried
> listening to acpi events with acpi_listen, and uevents with udevd, but
> I get nothing.
> 
> I just glanced at the source and saw some uevent references, but
> obviously this doesn't  automatically mean that it ends up in udevd.
> Is there any way to accomplish this with the current driver?
dock/undock will sent out uevent to udevd, please check your udev config.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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