On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:59:58 +0100 Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I like to have them ;-) Ok - how is this? 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@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- kristen-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ kristen-2.6/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -326,10 +326,12 @@ static void hotplug_dock_devices(struct 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); } /** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html