On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:37:46 +0100 Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Sure. What actually bothers me is that in its current state, the dock > station driver signals 'green' on the dock station as soon as the user > presses the hardware undock button, but regardlessly of anything else. I > think it would be ok to let the ACPI undock event up to userspace because > in many situations it knows best when it is save to undock. I disagree - as I mentioned, not all laptops actually let you (userspace) control the undock process because they don't lock. The dock driver does notify user space of an undock, before it actually undocks: /* * here we need to generate the undock * event prior to actually doing the undock * so that the device struct still exists. */ dock_event(ds, event, UNDOCK_EVENT); hotplug_dock_devices(ds, ACPI_NOTIFY_EJECT_REQUEST); undock(ds); eject_dock(ds); We even notify other subsystems of our intent to undock prior to actually doing it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html