Send key=value pair along with the uevent instead of a plain value so that userspace (udev) can handle it like common environment variables. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx> --- Patch applies to recent acpi-test tree diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bay.c b/drivers/acpi/bay.c diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c index dc3df93..877ca1c 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -336,13 +336,13 @@ static void hotplug_dock_devices(struct static void dock_event(struct dock_station *ds, u32 event, int num) { struct device *dev = &dock_device->dev; - char event_string[7]; + char event_string[13]; char *envp[] = { event_string, NULL }; if (num == UNDOCK_EVENT) - sprintf(event_string, "UNDOCK"); + sprintf(event_string, "EVENT=undock"); else - sprintf(event_string, "DOCK"); + sprintf(event_string, "EVENT=dock"); /* * Indicate that the status of the dock station has - 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