From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57422 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbdKFJmh (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2017 04:42:37 -0500 Subject: Patch "platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree To: javier@osg.samsung.com, alexander.levin@verizon.com, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:42:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1509961358241161@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: platform-x86-intel_mid_thermal-fix-module-autoload.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Mon Nov 6 10:42:09 CET 2017 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:38:00 +0000 Subject: platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload From: Javier Martinez Canillas [ Upstream commit a93151a72061e944a4915458b1b1d6d505c03bbf ] If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered device with the corresponding module. Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro. Before this patch: $ modinfo drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias alias: platform:msic_thermal Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c @@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ static const struct platform_device_id t { "msic_thermal", 1 }, { } }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, therm_id_table); static struct platform_driver mid_thermal_driver = { .driver = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@osg.samsung.com are queue-3.18/platform-x86-intel_mid_thermal-fix-module-autoload.patch