Re: [PATCH] libata: Register for dock events when the drive is inside a dock station

[Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>]

On Thu 28. Feb - 16:58:17, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Thu 28. Feb - 22:05:53, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Holger Macht wrote:
> > > On Thu 28. Feb - 18:35:06, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > >> Holger Macht wrote:
> > >>> The hotplug handler is only called if the device is actually inside the
> > >>> dock station. If it is not, nothing will happen. I hope that I got your
> > >>> question right?
> > >> Yes, right.
> > >>
> > >>> However, if this would be helpful, it would be easy to add something like
> > >>> a am_I_on_dock_station?(...) function to the dock driver.
> > >> Hmm.. as long as the event is only delivered when the device is actually
> > >> connected behind dock, I think it's okay.
> > > 
> > > The dock driver also export a is_dock_device(acpi_handle) function, which
> > > could be used to make more fine-grained decisions, but it shouldn't be
> > > needed here.
> > > 
> > >> Does the attached patch fix the previous undock problem?  It now
> > >> explicitly tells libata EH to detach the notified devices on
> > >> EJECT_REQUEST and wait for EH to complete such that control is returned
> > >> to ACPI after all notified devices are actually detached.
> > > 
> > > No it does not. Apparently, it freezes faster (from 1 second down to
> > > immediately). Before, it just froze when someone (in this case HAL) tried
> > > to access the device. The "echo 1 > undock" call does not even return, so
> > > it might have introduced another problem.
> > 
> > The code should be in generally right direction.  Can you be persuaded
> > into tracking down what's going on?
> 
> I had a quick glance with adding some printk's. Now I got a different
> behaviour once. System did not freeze, but were certainly confused. The
> last thing which got printed to messages was exactly before
> spin_lock_irqsave(ap->lock, flags); at the beginning of ata_acpi_handle_hotplug(...)
> 
> The printk immediately after this call didn't come through anymore (with
> being able to use the system for a short time afterwards).

Ok, it seems that there is something broken somewhere else in
2.6.25.rc3. Not sure at all if it's your patch freezing the machine. I'll
give 2.6.24.3 a try...

Regards,
	Holger