[ltp] Re: How does a uevent work for dock/undock on thinkpads?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I know nothing about udev or HAL. Is there a simple way to do what
> I want to do?  I would appreciate if anyone could give any help
> or direction.

It should be possible to write a simple file to put into
/etc/udev/rules.d that will run your script whenever you dock or undock.
The problem is to figure out what these events look like so you can
write rules that match.

A first step might be to add a /etc/udev/rules.d/00-trace.rules
that just contains:

   NAME==".*", RUN+="printenv | logger -t udevd"

this will spam your syslog with a lot of info about each and every
udev event.  Then you can look for the ones that correspond to
docking&undocking.


        Stefan