[ltp] Re: Undocking?

[David Abrahams]

"Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/23/06, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 19:24, David Abrahams wrote:
>> > Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> writes:
>> >
>> > > For a longer description of this feature please refer to the ibm-acpi
>> > > README, docking section.
>> > >
>> > > http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/README
>> >
>> > Already did.  Ooo, but I just noticed it won't respond unless it was
>> > booted in the dock :(.
>>
>> Yes, imb-acpi is limited. Perhaps you should wait until the generic
>> dock patches are in main. This should makes things in this area
>> easier. Especially the paper from OLS Alex mentioned looks
>> interesting.
>
> They may already be in andrew's tree or even a recent git rc kernel.
> I really haven't tracked them much since OLS.  If you are
> interested,

I am interested, but I don't know who andrew is or what a git rc
kernel is...

> you should email LKML or the patch's author.

...or who LKML is. Would you mind spelling it out for the ignorant?

Thanks.

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Dave Abrahams
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