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>
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:49:20 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
commit48e2fc6d2c59f28ff4f7f55a5fa5fbf4828da350
tree3dd966838b298c2fe60e2e78abdb3bc081fd5c36
parent4fa62956a8707dafb9e41921a5b266e8da179586
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