linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 07/33] ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine

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Message-Id: <20140424214450.532547836@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:48:20 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 07/33] ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>

commit 0bf6368ee8f25826d0645c0f7a4f17c8845356a4 upstream.

Commit 1696d9d (ACPI: Remove the old /proc/acpi/event interface)
removed ACPI Button event which originally was sent to userspace via
/proc/acpi/event. This caused ACPI shutdown regression on gentoo
in VirtualBox. Now ACPI events are sent to userspace via netlink,
so add ACPI Button event back via netlink routine.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71721
Reported-and-tested-by: Richard Musil <richard.musil@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/acpi/button.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/acpi/button.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c
@@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ static void acpi_button_notify(struct ac
 			input_sync(input);

 			pm_wakeup_event(&device->dev, 0);
+			acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(
+					device->pnp.device_class,
+					dev_name(&device->dev),
+					event, ++button->pushed);
 		}
 		break;
 	default:

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