swapping things stopped working.

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:

Nate> David Gilbert wrote:
>> I have a Dell D800 laptop.  It seems to me that somewhere very
>> recent --- in the runup to the 5.3 release likely, the ACPI event
>> that occurs when I change what's in my bay (either a DVD writer or
>> a battery) has stopped occuring.
>> 
>> Whichever device is in on boot seems to work OK, but changing
>> devices doesn't seem to work any longer.
>> 
>> Did something change recently that would affect this?

Nate> Figuring out what date this occurred would help.  Did it occur
Nate> after RELENG_5 or before?  If you're changing devices, I assume
Nate> you need to manually run atacontrol attach right?  We don't have
Nate> autoprobe for legacy devices yet.

It was fairly recently.  Within the last two months for sure.  I can't
be 100% sure, but I believe it's been since the start of BETA1.  I've
always had to run atacontrol for the drive, but lately it hasn't
worked.  It sees the drive there --- but it doesn't attach it and
create the drive nodes.

Previously, if for some reason, I booted w/o acpi loaded, it had this
behaviour.  Plugging and unplugging also always had a palpable pause
in X as it happened (which I assumed to be acpi working).

Dave.

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