Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] CONFIG_IBM_BAY

2007-03-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote:
 More like it is a make sure we can actually eject, as we have been told
 to.  We might return an error instead, but if we do, we need a way to
 force-eject (e.g. echo 2 eject).
 
 Which stage are you referring to?

Stage 2, of course.  It is useful to have a force_eject functionality that
**will** eject and not error out because of anything other than the eject
command itself failing.

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Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] CONFIG_IBM_BAY

2007-03-19 Thread Shem Multinymous

On 3/19/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

True.  The best available procedure to do this for ACPI bay/dock currently
is, AFAIK:

1. Send event when bay/dock please release button/lever is pressed. Do
*nothing* else.  I know bay does this right, maybe dock doesn't.

2. Wait for something to echo 1 eject or to call the appropriate routine
directly, or (if this exists) for an notification from firmware that the
user IS disconnecting the device for real.

3. delete the device.  This means force-umount, force-close, etc.

4. Tell the hardware to eject.


Note that currently (2) and (3) are swapped, as (3) is being done by
userspace request, instead of by the kernel.  This is something I *don't*
like.


Userspace wants to (non-force-)-unmount by itself after (1), so it can
stop  the eject process if the filesystems cannot be cleanly
unmounted. So the force-unmount at (3) ends up being a redundant
safety measure at best.

 Shem
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Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] CONFIG_IBM_BAY

2007-03-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Shem Multinymous wrote:
 Userspace wants to (non-force-)-unmount by itself after (1), so it can
 stop  the eject process if the filesystems cannot be cleanly
 unmounted. So the force-unmount at (3) ends up being a redundant
 safety measure at best.

More like it is a make sure we can actually eject, as we have been told
to.  We might return an error instead, but if we do, we need a way to
force-eject (e.g. echo 2 eject).

-- 
  One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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