ACPI: Export events via generic netlink

Upon ACPI events, send an "acpi_event" via Generic Netlink.
This is in addition to /proc/acpi/event, which remains intact for now.

Thanks to Jamal for his great help.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
index c6fa5e023bc7..5e3dcf3299bf 100644
--- a/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
+++ b/include/acpi/acpi_bus.h
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ struct acpi_bus_event {
 };
 
 extern struct kset acpi_subsys;
-
+extern int acpi_bus_generate_genetlink_event(struct acpi_device *device,
+                                                u8 type, int data);
 /*
  * External Functions
  */