[ltp] No /proc/acpi/ibm/dock on X61 in Jaunty

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 15:58:35 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Hello, and apologies in advance if this is a dumb question.
>
> The thinkpad-acpi README[1] refers to the /proc/acpi/ibm/dock file.
>
> This file does not appear on my ThinkPad X61 with Ubuntu 8.10
> installed and upgraded to Jaunty (4 March 2009).
>
> There is, however, a /sys/devices/platform/dock.0 directory with the
> following
> files:
>
> $ ls -al /sys/devices/platform/dock.0
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 2009-03-05 14:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root    0 2009-03-05 13:26 ..
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 14:26 docked
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 13:51 flags
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 13:51 modalias
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 2009-03-05 13:51 power
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 2009-03-05 13:26 subsystem ->
> ../../../bus/platform
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 13:51 type
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 14:25 uevent
> -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 13:51 uid
> --w-------  1 root root 4096 2009-03-05 13:51 undock
>
> Does this mean that /proc/acpi/ibm/dock has been replaced by the above?

Yes, maybe there is a message in the kernel log from thinkpad-acpi
about skipping docking support in favour of the generic kernel driver.
At least this is the case with the bay driver.

Regards,
Tino