Interest in UDisks support for undocking drives

[Kevin Locke]

Hi All,

I'm interested in UDisks support for removing drives connected via a
dock device, such as the UltraBay in my ThinkPad T430.  My
understanding is that this is not currently supported (e.g. a docked
hard drive is currently "removable: false" on my system).

In Bug 23110[1] David Zeuthen wrote:
> Note that right now we only support USB optical drives, support for
> Ultrabay devices is possible to add but it requires that the kernel
> exports a relationship in sysfs between the bay and disk device.
> Matthew Garrett (added to Cc) is working with Jeff Garzik on adding
> this to the kernel. Once this is in the kernel, we can take
> advantage of it in DeviceKit-disks with having to change anything
> above it.

Since this was back in 2009, I'm having some difficulty picking up the
trail from there.  Was there ever a proposed API or implementation for
the sysfs changes?  Is anybody still working on it or interested?  Is
such support still desirable/workable?

I'd be interested in contributing, if that might be useful.

Best,
Kevin

1.  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23110

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