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    thinkpad-acpi: remove dock and bay subdrivers · 1f6fc2de
    Henrique de Moraes Holschuh authored
    The standard ACPI dock driver can handle the hotplug bays and docks of
    the ThinkPads just fine (including batteries) as of 2.6.27, and the
    code in thinkpad-acpi for the dock and bay subdrivers is currently
    broken anyway...
    
    Userspace needs some love to support the two-stage ejection nicely,
    but it is simple enough to do through udev rules (you don't even need
    HAL) so this wouldn't justify fixing the dock and bay subdrivers,
    either.
    
    That leaves warm-swap bays (_EJ3) support for thinkpad-acpi, as well
    as support for the weird dock of the model 570, but since such support
    has never left the "experimental" stage, it is also not a strong
    enough reason to find a way to fix this code.
    
    Users of ThinkPads with warm-swap bays are urged to request that _EJ3
    support be added to the regular ACPI dock driver, if such feature is
    indeed useful for them.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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