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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 05 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> >> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> >> Subject: Re: [ltp] [RFC] thinkpad-acpi: dock and bay drivers: any users left?
> >> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 00:29:40 -0300
> >> 
> >> > On Mon, 04 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> >> >> What doesn't work is that the pre-eject switch (the thing that pops out
> >> >> the physical eject tab) doesn't seem to be hooked into ACPI.  There are
> >> >> udev events generated by the switch, but nothing in F11 appears to be
> >> >> hooked to them.
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> The thing that bugs me about the dock/bay stuff is I don't understand
> >> who knows that a particular disk (or CD) is in the dock/bay.  I don't
> >> see any connection between them anywhere.
> > 
> > Yeah, this is bogosity in the kernel.  It doesn't export anything useful on
> > the dock.# nodes.
> 
> Hmm.  Any chance of improvement sometime (soon)?

Not from me, I have an ALSA mixer and rfkill stuff to fix in the kernel
side, and I need to give some care to my Debian packages...

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  Henrique Holschuh