Re: CONFIG_IBM_BAY

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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.  
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