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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Freitag, 1. Februar 2008 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> > > Thanks for info, I'll test it this week-end ! I've tried load 'bay'
> > > module, and it detected the capability, but when inserting thinkpad
> > > on the base after boot, I didn't see the CD-ROM drive in /dev/ : what
> > > do we have to do then ?
> > >
> > >   I'll check udev's events
> >
> > Please do. Also, bay on 2.6.24 is likely a lot more intelligent than on
> > 2.6.23, I don't know if 2.6.23 did the device hotplug automatically, but it
> > *appears* that 2.6.24 bay does so.
> 
> What do you mean with device hotplug? Without a udev helper script 
> that "ejects" the drive my computer hardlocked when removing the cdrom drive. 

Just looked at 2.6.24 bay, and indeed it is dumb as a brick.  Yeah, you need
the entire hoopla in userspace just like thinkpad-acpi does.

I will talk to upstream, we really need also at least a link between a bay
device and whatever crap is inside it.  This is not optional, it is
*needed*.

IMO, bay should be something like a class, and the "eject" should go into
the device proper, but that's probably a lot more difficult to pull off.

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  Henrique Holschuh