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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

Patch applies to recent acpi-test tree

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bay.c b/drivers/acpi/bay.c
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c
index dc3df93..877ca1c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c
+++ b/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
-
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