Re: [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed

[Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>]

On Di 06. Mai - 12:24:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008, Holger Macht wrote:
> > On Di 06. Mai - 11:33:16, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > On Di 06. Mai - 17:23:31, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:15 +0800, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > > > On Mo 05. Mai - 22:25:08, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > > > > If acpi_install_notify_handler() for a bay device fails, the bay
> > > > > driver is
> > > > > > superfluous. Most likely, another driver (like libata) is already
> > > > > caring
> > > > > > about this device anyway. Furthermore,
> > > > > > register_hotplug_dock_device(acpi_handle) from the dock driver must
> > > > > not be
> > > > > > called twice with the same handler. So clean up and exit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The patch needs some more work. I'll send an updated one as soon as
> > > > > ready.
> > > > The bay driver is duplicated with libata, I thought we should delete it.
> > > > See bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9526
> > > 
> > > Yes, I know, but couldn't it be helpful on systems not using libata?
> > 
> > Also, libata has to be patched to execute ACPI _EJ0 (not a huge issue, I
> > know) or calling bay's eject_removable drive method.
> 
> It *is* a huge issue.  I think that currently, bay handling on thinkpads
> is broken because of it, and users that expect it to just work could
> well fry their hardware if they're the sort of people who don't LOOK at
> the bay light before they yank stuff from it :-)
> 
> This is not a bug report, but a head's up.  I am at 2.6.23, so I didn't
> test for the bug yet.
> 
> Anyway, when you bind to an ACPI node, you forbid anything else from
> doing it.  This means it is now your problem to handle **ALL**
> capabilities of that node.  This means libata MUST handle ejection, or
> it MUST NOT bind to an ACPI node.

I fully agree. With "not a huge issue", I rather meant that coding this
two lines of code is pretty easy ;-)

Regards,
	Holger