On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:15:13PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> Commit 8765c5ba1949 ("ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when
> "compatible" is present") may create two "MODALIAS=" in uevent file if
> conditions are met.
>
> This breaks systemd-udevd, which assumes each "key" in uevent file is
> unique. The internal implementation of systemd-udevd overwrites the
> first MODALIAS with the second one, so its kmod rule doesn't load driver
> for the first MODALIAS.
>
> Right now it doesn't seem to have any user relies on the second
> MODALIAS, so change it to OF_MODALIAS to workaround the issue.
>
> Reference: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18163
> Fixes: 8765c5ba1949 ("ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when "compatible" is present")
> Cc: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
> index 96869f1538b9..c92b671cb816 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/device_sysfs.c
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ int __acpi_device_uevent_modalias(struct acpi_device *adev,
> if (!adev->data.of_compatible)
> return 0;
>
> - if (len > 0 && add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS="))
> + if (len > 0 && add_uevent_var(env, "OF_MODALIAS="))
Who will use OF_MODALIAS and where have you documented it?
thanks,
greg k-h
