[ltp] What are people using for Dock/Undocking scripts for their X60/61's?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

Hi Theodore!

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:55:08AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Heh, hotunplug of device trees done properly has NOT been around a long time
> > in Linux :-(  Just like resume from suspend to disk done properly still
> > doesn't exist (init the ACPI firmware twice?  No wonder it croaks on so many
> > systems...)
> > 
> > It should work with a very NEW kernel (certainly no older than 2.6.27) if
> > userspace doesn't screw up.  Basically, you need to umount any storage that
> > is in the dock and inside devices in the dock, then tell the notebook to
> > eject the dock writing "1" to the correct node in
> > /sys/bus/platform/devices/dock.*/undock
> 
> This mostly works for me (if you're using LVM you need you use
> vgchange -an to tell LVM to let go of the physical device; it's not
> enough to unmount any filesystems stored on the Ultrabay device);
> however after docking or undocking, suspend-to-ram is broken.  The
> laptop will suspend, but upon resume it will hang and not come back to
> life.
> 
> Annoying, and since the failure is on the resume side, it's darned
> hard to debug.

I can imagine.  Does it affect bays or just the docks?

Also, I hope that nowadays we throw suitably scary messages when a device is
offlined with LVM/mounted stuff still active, and then proceed to clean up
instead of doing Bad Things... :)

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh