From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59770 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754792AbdAKH4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:56:36 -0500 Subject: patch "tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload" added to tty-testing To: javier@osg.samsung.com, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org From: Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:56:56 +0100 Message-ID: <148412141652224@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 tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the tty-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >>From df51e152cfff2adeb177201699c1624e82a37a15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 11:57:20 -0300 Subject: tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload 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/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdmC* alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdm alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartC* alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uart Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index 7312e7e01b7e..6788e7532dff 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -1809,6 +1809,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id msm_match_table[] = { { .compatible = "qcom,msm-uartdm" }, {} }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, msm_match_table); static struct platform_driver msm_platform_driver = { .remove = msm_serial_remove, -- 2.11.0