ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine
authorLan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:37:13 +0000 (13:37 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:19:03 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
commit03132845a32cdd2cc4b1b913253e0f8a9f1b4494
tree2ac81a5a01400ce9511cce3c2b7eaaa7aec96c3d
parent6b3ad9432a345bcea1fad2eab578db6cf4cbe76d
ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine

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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/acpi/button.c