linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed

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Message-Id: <1210122279.27316.2.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 May 2008 09:04:39 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Holger Macht <hmacht@...e.de>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Accardi, Kristen C" <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bay: Exit if notify handler cannot be installed

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 12:18 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > The bay driver is duplicated with libata, I thought we should delete it.
> > See bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9526
> 
> The bay driver is currently useless, BUT it should handle a lot of stuff
> libata won't, such as bay batteries, bay floppies, and anything else in
> a bay that is not a hard disk.
> 
> The fact that the driver currently looks only after disks is just a bug.
> It should, in fact, bind to any ejectable device not already handled by
> a different driver.
Isn't this the job of acpi dock driver?

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