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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 14:50:14 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:42:31PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> As noted by Hans, we currently fail to generate uevents for ACPI serdev
> controller as they do not have any ACPI companions from which ACPI
> modaliases are constructed.
> 
> In fact, we should not have been generating modaliases for controllers
> in the first place as controllers are not bound to drivers.
> 
> This series applies on top of Hans's minimal fix which suppresses the
> uevent errors for ACPI controllers (even though it could replace it
> entirely if preferred).

I somehow forgot to CC Hans. Sorry about that. This series can be found
here:

	https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108124233.26729-1-johan@kernel.org

> Johan Hovold (2):
>   serdev: do not generate modaliases for controllers
>   serdev: only match serdev devices
> 
>  drivers/tty/serdev/core.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Johan