Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:21:51 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristenc@cs.pdx.edu>
Cc: pcihpd-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com, len.brown@intel.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, muneda.takahiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
       linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] acpiphp: handle dock stations
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Hi!

> This patch will add hot add/remove of docking stations to acpiphp.  Because
> some docking stations will have a _DCK method that is not associated with
> a dock bridge, we use the _EJD method to determine which devices are 
> dependent on the dock device, then try to find which of these dependent
> devices are pci devices.  We register a separate event handler with acpi
> to handle dock notifications, but if we have discovered any pci devices
> dependent on the dock station, we notify the acpiphp driver to rescan
> the correct bus.  If no pci devices are found, but there is still a _DCK method
> present, the driver will stay loaded to deal with the dock
> notifications.

Even while machine is locked in dock, I don't see aditional devices at
lspci. Is there some additional steps I need to do?

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Feb  6 14:17 attention

..should probably be write-only. It seems to only return errors on
read, anyway.

Is there a way to physicaly remove my machine from dock? echo 0 >
power should do it, right? Well, it does not :-).

								Pavel
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