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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

The ACPI "dock" driver in Linux 2.6.27 and newer handles hotswap docks AND
bays a lot better than thinkpad-acpi does, thus I am seriously considering
getting rid of the thinkpad-acpi dock and bay drivers.

So, I'd like to know if there are still any users of the thinkpad-acpi dock
driver left (this assumes you're running a new kernel, 2.6.27+).  I also
need to know the same for the thinkpad-acpi bay driver.

If you have a hotswap-capable ThinkPad (bays and dock are supported by the
ACPI dock driver), and you still prefer to use thinkpad-acpi's dock and bay
drivers, please tell me what doesn't work for you using the ACPI dock
driver.

If you have a warmswap-capable ThinkPad (ThinkPads where you have to
suspend-to-ram before you remove devices from the bay), like the A-series,
numeric models (600, 770), and probably the very early X and T models, I
need to know if what thinkpad-acpi provides is useful (ACPI dock will NOT
support your bays).  That support is still marked experimental, it is code
that I haven't touched in years (in fact, it is in the same functional state
I got it from the previous ibm-acpi maintainer), and I have NO knowledge of
any users of it...

Also, model 570 users with docks: does ACPI dock work for you?  Does
thinkpad-acpi dock works for you?


If I don't get answers with strong reasons to keep those subdrivers around,
I am likely going to remove them from my trees in about a month or so, and
upstream in Linux 2.6.31.

I am also interested into getting ACPI dock working perfectly on thinkpads
so that's a secondary objective of these questions: what should be improved
on ACPI dock?  There is already one thing on my list: add an attribute that
gives the user an idea of WHAT dock/bay a dock.* device represents...

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh