From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] Hot Dock/Undock support Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:16:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20060118121615.GA13800@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1137545813.19858.45.camel@whizzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:46790 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030195AbWARMQf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:16:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1137545813.19858.45.camel@whizzy> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Kristen Accardi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, len.brown@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > This series of patches is against the -mm kernel, and will enable > docking station support. It is an early patch, but still pretty > functional, so I think it's worthwhile to include at this point. They seem to be in 2.6.16-rc1-mm1 patch, good. > Supported Features: > * Hot Dock/Undock via hardware control > * Enumeration of PCI Devices on Dock Station (Hot Add/Remove) via pci > > Not Supported Yet (but will be with laptops with sane dsdts): > * _EJD, _EDL support for devices that aren't enumerable > * hot add of devices other than PCI devices (such as the serial/lpt etc). > * More thorough testing needs to be done for everything, but especially > video, as I've not even begun to worry about that. ... > Please comment on these patches, and test if you have a docking station > available. When you find problems, if you would like me to debug them, > please load the acpiphp driver with the debug param (modprobe > acpiphp debug=1), I'll try to test them and write some small docking HOWTO (or maybe force you to write it :-). This is not exactly easy to setup... Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp!