3.11.10.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Lan Tianyu <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> [ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]> --- drivers/acpi/button.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/button.c b/drivers/acpi/button.c index d2e617b..a495adb 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/button.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ static void acpi_button_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event) 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); } acpi_bus_generate_proc_event(device, event, ++button->pushed); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
