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| From | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' |
| Date | 2016-06-08 13:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rHJGG-7U2-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <rH5SV-7rk-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 18:48 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Because of an improper dereference, a stray 'C' character was output to
> the modalias when no 'compatible' was specified. This is the case for
> some old PowerMac drivers which only set the 'name' property. Fix it to
> let them match again.
>
> Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
> Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Fixes: 6543becf26fff6 ("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling")
> ---
>
> I think it makes sense if this goes in via ppc (with stable tag added).
> D'accord?
Sure, I've grabbed it.
I added:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
cheers
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[PATCH] of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2016-06-06 18:50 +0200 Re: [PATCH] of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-08 13:20 +0200 Re: of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-10 05:30 +0200
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