Re: Generic hotkey driver for dock ejecting

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> I'm playing with a Dell Latitude D610. By doing
> 
> echo "0:\_SB.PCI0.PCIE.GDCK::\SB_PCI0.PCIE.GDCK::0:0" 
> >/proc/hotkey/event_config
> 
> I can get an event when I push the eject request button on the dock. I 
> guess the appropriate thing to do in response to this is to call the 
> dock's eject method (the dock appears to be \_SB.PCI0.PCIE.GDCK, which 
> has _EJ0, _EJ3 and _EJ4 methods). How do I go about this?
> 

Well, I guess you need to hot-unplug devices in the dock and only then
call the eject methods.

BTW it would be nice to have some common infrastructure;
I have thinkpad with dock here, too...
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