The patch titled ACPI: dock: send envp with uevent has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-dock-send-envp-with-uevent.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ACPI: dock: send envp with uevent From: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> Send an env along with our KOBJ_CHANGE uevent so that user space has the option of checking for that to see if a dock or undock has occurred. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-envp-with-uevent drivers/acpi/dock.c --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-envp-with-uevent +++ a/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -336,11 +336,19 @@ 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 *envp[] = { event_string, NULL }; + + if (num == UNDOCK_EVENT) + sprintf(event_string, "UNDOCK"); + else + sprintf(event_string, "DOCK"); + /* * Indicate that the status of the dock station has * changed. */ - kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE); + kobject_uevent_env(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch acpi-dock-cleanup-the-uid-patch.patch acpi-dock-fix-opps-after-dock-driver-fails-to-initialize.patch acpi-dock-use-dynamically-allocated-platform-device.patch acpi-dock-add-immediate_undock-option.patch acpi-dock-unsuppress-uevents.patch acpi-dock-send-envp-with-uevent.patch acpi-bay-unsuppress-uevents.patch acpi-fix-oops-after-dock-driver-fails-to-initialize.patch cpci_hotplug-convert-to-use-the-kthread-api.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