Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: [patch 0/4] Hot Dock/Undock support

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On St 18-01-06 21:47:09, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:06:09PM -0800, Kristen Accardi wrote:
> 
> > Hum, I don't think so (but maybe someone else knows for sure), I thought
> > that driver was specifically for a certain kind of IBM server, not an
> > IBM laptop.  It looks like from this output that the acpiphp is not
> > recognizing any hotplug capable devices on your laptop.  I believe that
> > this is defined by acpiphp as a slot which is "ejectable", meaning
> > contains an ACPI method called _EJ0.  
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, the X-series docking station doesn't 
> contain any PCI devices. It's an extension of the IDE bus plus some 
> broken out serial, parallel, USB and so on. I'd expect driver support 
> for it to just require supporting the dock object and calling its eject 
> routine when the user hits the eject button.

My docking station (there are two different versions of them,
"regular" and "port extender") certainly contains PCI device. I
installed hp100 network card into it :-).

							Pavel

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