From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59938 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968764AbdAIPEP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:04:15 -0500 Subject: Patch "hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: javier@osg.samsung.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:04:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1483974249859@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 hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload to the 4.4-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: hwmon-scpi-fix-module-autoload.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 13edb767aa609b6efb7c0c2b57fbd72a6ded0eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:31:44 -0300 Subject: hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload From: Javier Martinez Canillas commit 13edb767aa609b6efb7c0c2b57fbd72a6ded0eed upstream. 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/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.ko | grep alias alias: of:N*T*Carm,scpi-sensorsC* alias: of:N*T*Carm,scpi-sensors Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Fixes: ea98b29a05e9c ("hwmon: Support sensors exported via ARM SCP interface") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.c @@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id scpi_of {.compatible = "arm,scpi-sensors"}, {}, }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, scpi_of_match); static struct platform_driver scpi_hwmon_platdrv = { .driver = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@osg.samsung.com are queue-4.4/hwmon-scpi-fix-module-autoload.patch