RE: ibm_acpi and docking

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Li,

I am glad that you will develop/test docking support
on your T40, because it should be close to R50p. And
maybe the dock is the same.
I agree that suspend/resume work is more important
than docking.

If you need testing and logs, don't hesitate to let me
know. I can test docking with T41 and R50p for now.

Thanks,
Paul

--- "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> >Do you plan to extend a little bit your docking
> >capability in acpi-php ( R50p with dock) ?
> >I would be happy to help with testing and debugging
> >output.
> >What I am interested in, is proper docking support
> >when booted in dock and ACPI had the chance to see
> all
> >devices.
> >For now I understood that we cannot provide hot
> >insertion of devices because of ACPIPNP does not
> >support it yet.
> ACPIPNP originally supports hotplug, but we removed
> the capability. The
> reason is this will cause conflict because some
> drivers directly use
> ACPI. After fixing such drivers, we will reintroduce
> the capability.
> 
> acpiphp can't handle PCI bridge hotplug is another
> reason. I did some
> investigation on how to make docking station work in
> my T40 before, and
> actually made all PCI devices work with a hack. But
> I'm doing
> suspend/resume, so the work is suspended now.
> 
> >But if we had seen them at boot time, maybe it is
> >easyer to deal with.
> No, acpiphp and ACPIPNP also can't support hot
> remove.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaohua
> 



		
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