From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible'
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:26:32 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3rQndj0N39z9snk@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465231718-2577-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de>
On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 16:48:38 UTC, 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")
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b3c0a4dab7e35a9b6d69c04156
cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-10 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 16:48 [PATCH] " Wolfram Sang
2016-06-08 11:14 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-06-10 3:26 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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