The patch titled acpi dock: send a uevent to indicate a device change has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was acpi-dock-send-a-uevent-to-indicate-a-device-change.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi dock: send a uevent to indicate a device change From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-a-uevent-to-indicate-a-device-change drivers/acpi/dock.c --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-a-uevent-to-indicate-a-device-change +++ a/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); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx are git-acpi.patch git-libata-all.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html