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* [PATCH] ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read
@ 2009-01-20 11:18 Holger Macht
  2009-01-27 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Holger Macht @ 2009-01-20 11:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-acpi; +Cc: stable, Len Brown, Li, Shaohua, Daniel Smolik, akpm

Some devices trigger a DEVICE_CHECK on every evalutation of _STA. This
can also be seen in commit 8b59560a3baf2e7c24e0fb92ea5d09eca92805db
(ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method).  If an undock is processed, the
dock driver sends a uevent and userspace might read the show_docked
property in sysfs. This causes an evaluation of _STA of the particular
device which causes the dock driver to immediately dock again.

In any case, evaluation of _STA (show_docked) does not necessarily mean
that we are docked, so check with the internal device structure.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12360

Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
index 5b30b8d..afd5db3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
@@ -855,10 +855,14 @@ fdd_out:
 static ssize_t show_docked(struct device *dev,
 			   struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
+	struct acpi_device *tmp;
+
 	struct dock_station *dock_station = *((struct dock_station **)
 		dev->platform_data);
-	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", dock_present(dock_station));
 
+	if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_bus_get_device(dock_station->handle, &tmp)))
+		return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "1\n");
+	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "0\n");
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(docked, S_IRUGO, show_docked, NULL);
 


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2009-02-06 21:33     ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-07  3:11   ` Len Brown
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