[ltp] [RFC] thinkpad-acpi: dock and bay drivers: any users left?

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Subject: Re: [ltp] [RFC] thinkpad-acpi: dock and bay drivers: any users left?
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:55:59 -0300

> On Tue, 05 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
>> Subject: Re: [ltp] [RFC] thinkpad-acpi: dock and bay drivers: any users left?
>> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 00:29:40 -0300
>> 
>> > On Mon, 04 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> >> What doesn't work is that the pre-eject switch (the thing that pops out
>> >> the physical eject tab) doesn't seem to be hooked into ACPI.  There are
>> >> udev events generated by the switch, but nothing in F11 appears to be
>> >> hooked to them.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> The thing that bugs me about the dock/bay stuff is I don't understand
>> who knows that a particular disk (or CD) is in the dock/bay.  I don't
>> see any connection between them anywhere.
> 
> Yeah, this is bogosity in the kernel.  It doesn't export anything useful on
> the dock.# nodes.

Hmm.  Any chance of improvement sometime (soon)?

peter