Re: CONFIG_IBM_BAY

Holger Macht
2007-03-18T18:55:36Z

On Sun 18. Mar - 15:36:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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.

It doesn't work, I've already tried. The bay driver only emits an event if
you really try to remove the bay, but not on docking/undocking.

Regards,
Holger