Re: CONFIG_IBM_BAY

[Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>]

On Mon 19. Mar - 11:04:12, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:55:30 +0100
> Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > 
> 
> this *should* work.  The Bay driver registers with the dock driver to get
> dock events:
> 
>         /* if we are on a dock station, we should register for dock
>          * notifications.
>          */
>         if (bay_is_dock_device(handle)) {
>                 bay_dprintk(handle, "Is dependent on dock\n");
>                 register_hotplug_dock_device(handle, bay_notify, new_bay);
>         }
>  

But is_dock_device(...) for both the bay and for the parent handle return
false. I'm using an X60 here, so bay_notify is never registered. I
couldn't find the reason in the short time I was looking at it, though.

Regards,
	Holger