Subject: Re: [patch] add new uevent
From: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, greg@kroah.com
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Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 10:24:49 -0700
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On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 02:22 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:13:36PM -0700, Kristen Accardi wrote:
> > Add dock uevents so that userspace can be notified of dock and undock
> > events.
> 
> > --- 2.6-git-kca2.orig/include/linux/kobject.h
> > +++ 2.6-git-kca2/include/linux/kobject.h
> > @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ enum kobject_action {
> >  	KOBJ_UMOUNT	= (__force kobject_action_t) 0x05,	/* umount event for block devices (broken) */
> >  	KOBJ_OFFLINE	= (__force kobject_action_t) 0x06,	/* device offline */
> >  	KOBJ_ONLINE	= (__force kobject_action_t) 0x07,	/* device online */
> > +	KOBJ_UNDOCK	= (__force kobject_action_t) 0x08, 	/* undocking */
> > +	KOBJ_DOCK	= (__force kobject_action_t) 0x09,	/* dock */
> >  };
> >  
> >  struct kobject {
> > --- 2.6-git-kca2.orig/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> > +++ 2.6-git-kca2/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> > @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ static char *action_to_string(enum kobje
> >  		return "offline";
> >  	case KOBJ_ONLINE:
> >  		return "online";
> > +	case KOBJ_DOCK:
> > +		return "dock";
> > +	case KOBJ_UNDOCK:
> > +		return "undock";
> >  	default:
> >  		return NULL;
> >  	}
> 
> Where exactly are you going to generate them?

Hi Alexey,
These events will be generated from the dock driver.  The patch for this
will be submitted in the next day or 2 (assuming everyone is ok with
adding these events).

Kristen
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