Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] CONFIG_IBM_BAY

Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-03-20T16:13:54Z

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:12:40 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > Is this what you had in mind? (Warning - I didn't test this).
> >
> >
> > Allow the driver to be loaded with an option that will allow userspace to
> > control whether the laptop is ejected immediately when the user presses the
> > button, or only when the syfs undock file is written.
> >
> > if immediate_undock == 1, then when the user presses the undock button, the
> > laptop will send an event to userspace to notify userspace of the undock, but
> > then immediately undock without waiting for userspace. This is the current
> > behavior, and I set this to be the default.
> >
> > if immediate_undock == 0, then when the user presses the undock button, the
> > laptop will send an event to userspace and do nothing. User space can query
> > the "flags" sysfs entry to determine if an undock request has been made by
> > the user (if bit 1 is set). User space will then need to write the undock
> > sysfs entry to complete the undocking process.
>
> Yes, that's it exactly. I didn't try to test it, as I don't have a dock,
> but the above describes what I wanted, indeed.
>

Ok - I will implement this for real later this week and try to get something
that is somewhat tested by friday. I won't have access to my test laptops
till later in the week.