[ibm-acpi-devel] [ltp] /proc/acpi/ibm/bay gone with ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.19-20080107/2.6.24

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:40:12 -0200


On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> I'm following your discussion about bay support, and I wonder if we
> always have to boot the Thinkpad on its bay/base to be able to use
> it after ?

That problem has been solved for ages when you use the ACPI bay/dock driver,
instead of the deprecated drivers in thinkpad-acpi.

Remember that generic ACPI bay/dock sends events over udev, and not acpid.

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