Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

From: Stefan Schmidt
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 19:03:33 EST


Hello.

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 15:00, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>
> I did have different dock/undock events a few months ago - but
> after some discussion we scrapped them because Kay wants to avoid driver
> specific events. The "change" event is the only thing that makes sense,
> given the set of uevents available right now, and userspace should be
> able to handle checking a file to get driver specific details (i.e. dock
> and undock status). If you have a specific reason why this won't work,
> let me know.

It's fine with me. I just find two different events more handy.
Checking the file after the event in userspace should not be aproblem.

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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