Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've checked this - Lenovo document it as being for dock management.
> It's a software request for the platform to stop using any resources in
> the dock (such as unmounting filesystems if you have a hard drive in the
> bay) so that the laptop can be ejected safely. The media eject icon is
> commonly used on docking stations. The Dell and HP docking stations I
> have to hand both use it in this way.
The UltraBase on a Thinkpad *is* the dock. It's been at least three
generations of ThinkPad that I've sen since there were hard drives in
the media slice. And I believe it's the case that USB and Firewire
mass storage connected through the UltraBase will autodismount itself
then the UltraBase connectors don't see signal from the device.
So, in a Linux context on this hardware, I'm not sure there's a lot of
daylight between CD-ROM eject and dock management. What else would
one want that button to do?
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Support for CD-ROM-eject button, Fn-F9
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