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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:45:47PM +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> If acpi_install_notify_handler() for a bay device fails, the bay driver is
> superfluous. Most likely, another driver (like libata) is already caring
> about this device anyway. Furthermore,
> register_hotplug_dock_device(acpi_handle) from the dock driver must not be
> called twice with the same handler. This would result in an endless loop
> consuming 100% of CPU. So clean up and exit.

The bay driver still provides the only mechanism for calling the eject 
methods.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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