[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From fc0805fb3feb9c16a0385ccd3e30decccd97185d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan at intel.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:37:13 -0400
Subject: 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 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/button.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/button.c b/drivers/acpi/button.c
index d2e617b..a495adb 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/button.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/button.c
@@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ static void acpi_button_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
 			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);
 		}

 		acpi_bus_generate_proc_event(device, event, ++button->pushed);
--
1.9.1