On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:12:40 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > Is this what you had in mind?  (Warning - I didn't test this).
> > 
> > 
> > Allow the driver to be loaded with an option that will allow userspace to
> > control whether the laptop is ejected immediately when the user presses the
> > button, or only when the syfs undock file is written.  
> > 
> > if immediate_undock == 1, then when the user presses the undock button, the
> > laptop will send an event to userspace to notify userspace of the undock, 
> > but
> > then immediately undock without waiting for userspace.  This is the current
> > behavior, and I set this to be the default.
> > 
> > if immediate_undock == 0, then when the user presses the undock button, the
> > laptop will send an event to userspace and do nothing.  User space can query
> > the "flags" sysfs entry to determine if an undock request has been made by
> > the user (if bit 1 is set).  User space will then need to write the undock 
> > sysfs entry to complete the undocking process.
> 
> Yes, that's it exactly.  I didn't try to test it, as I don't have a dock,
> but the above describes what I wanted, indeed.
> 

Ok - I will implement this for real later this week and try to get something
that is somewhat tested by friday.  I won't have access to my test laptops
till later in the week.
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