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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Chris Schumann wrote:
> While I don't use my 600X much, I'm willing to test device swapping in  
> it (and run any test, pretty much) if that would be helpful.

Actually, swapping on the 600X is probably somewhat risky, I am not asking
anyone to test it... I'd like to know if anyone _needs_ it and thus is
already _using_ it  :-)

Of course, if you still want to test, it would be helpful to know whether it
actually works or not...

Remember: if you _do_ want to test, you must do it this way:

1. Umount any filesystems or whatever else might be using the device in the
bay, the kernel won't do it for you.

2. ask thinkpad-acpi to eject the bay, but do NOT touch the device in the
bay

3. Suspend to RAM, and _while_ the machine is sleeping, do the swapping.

4. Wake the system up.

I really don't like the idea of asking anyone to test the dock driver, that
one is really an ugly scenario when it doesn't work.  So, unless you already
are using it (and it works), or already tried it in the past and can tell me
something about what happened back then...

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