3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <richard.musil@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/button.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/acpi/button.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c @@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ static void acpi_button_notify(struct ac 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); } break; default: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html