[PATCH v2] sunxi-rsb: Include OF based modalias in device uevent

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Mon Dec 4 23:28:25 PST 2017


Hi,

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
>> Include the OF-based modalias in the uevent sent when registering devices
>> on the sunxi RSB bus, so that user space has a chance to autoload the
>> kernel module for the device.
>>
>> Fixes a regression caused by commit 3f241bfa60bd ("arm64: allwinner: a64:
>> pine64: Use dcdc1 regulator for mmc0"). When the axp20x-rsb module for
>> the AXP803 PMIC is built as a module, it is not loaded and the system
>> ends up with an disfunctional MMC controller.
>>

Tags should be:

Fixes: d787dcdb9c8f ("bus: sunxi-rsb: Add driver for Allwinner Reduced
Serial Bus")
Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.x 7a3b7cd332db of: device:
Export of_device_{get_modalias, uvent_modalias} to modules

>> Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens at rwth-aachen.de>
>
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>

Maxime, could you merge this as a fix to get it in fast?

ChenYu



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