linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

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Message-Id: <200612141723.20565.lenb@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:23:20 -0500
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Holger Macht <hmacht@...e.de>,
	Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

On Thursday 14 December 2006 02:16, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Mon 11. Dec - 12:05:08, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:

> > Ok - how is this?
>
> Looks good to me, thanks!

> > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@...e.de>

Applied.
thanks,
-Len

commit 8ea86e0ba7c9d16ae0f35cb0c4165194fa573f7a
Author: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 11 12:05:08 2006 -0800

    ACPI: dock: add uevent to indicate change in device status
    
    Send a uevent to indicate a device change whenever we dock or
    undock, so that userspace may now check the dock status via sysfs.
    
    Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
    Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@...e.de>
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
index 8c6828b..215f5b3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
@@ -326,10 +326,12 @@ static void hotplug_dock_devices(struct dock_station 
*ds, u32 event)
 
 static void dock_event(struct dock_station *ds, u32 event, int num)
 {
+	struct device *dev = &dock_device.dev;
 	/*
-	 * we don't do events until someone tells me that
-	 * they would like to have them.
+	 * Indicate that the status of the dock station has
+	 * changed.
 	 */
+	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE);
 }
 
 /**
-
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