From: Holger Macht Send key=value pair along with the uevent instead of a plain value so that userspace (udev) can handle it like common environment variables. Signed-off-by: Holger Macht Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi Cc: Stephan Berberig Cc: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-key=value-pair-instead-of-plain-value drivers/acpi/dock.c --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c~acpi-dock-send-key=value-pair-instead-of-plain-value +++ a/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -336,13 +336,13 @@ 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 event_string[13]; char *envp[] = { event_string, NULL }; if (num == UNDOCK_EVENT) - sprintf(event_string, "UNDOCK"); + sprintf(event_string, "EVENT=undock"); else - sprintf(event_string, "DOCK"); + sprintf(event_string, "EVENT=dock"); /* * Indicate that the status of the dock station has _