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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Accardi, Kristen C" <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:49:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506164930.32df50d0@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080506153901.GC22828@khazad-dum.debian.net>

> The problem has a bit of a hard edge, though: if nobody binds to an ACPI
> node that has an EJ0 subnode, bay needs to do it.  But if someone wants
> to, bay should give the node up, and somehow help that someone handle
> the ejection stuff.

A notifier chain should do all that is needed. If bay is loaded anyway
then ATA and other users can register with the bay driver and it can pass
an event to a notifier chain so that anyone who wants that event can act
on it (and if nobody does it can do its own stuff)

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05 20:25 [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed Holger Macht
2008-05-06  9:15 ` Holger Macht
2008-05-06  9:23   ` Shaohua Li
2008-05-06  9:33     ` Holger Macht
2008-05-06  9:35       ` Holger Macht
2008-05-06 15:24         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-06 17:12           ` Holger Macht
2008-05-07  1:03         ` Shaohua Li
2008-05-06 15:18     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-06 15:20       ` Alan Cox
2008-05-06 15:39         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-06 15:49           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-06 17:17           ` Holger Macht
2008-05-06 17:13       ` Holger Macht
2008-05-07  1:04       ` Shaohua Li
2008-05-07  1:13         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-07  1:27           ` Shaohua Li
2008-05-07 12:37             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-07 12:43               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-07 13:05               ` Holger Macht
2008-05-07 14:17               ` Matthew Garrett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-21 10:45 Holger Macht
2008-05-21 10:59 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-21 11:06   ` Holger Macht

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