This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: misc-eeprom_93xx46-add-module-alias-to-avoid-breakin.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 38e717599edfa2212f97868c0b2997b91f796a83 Author: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@xxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 13 10:42:52 2021 +0530 misc: eeprom_93xx46: Add module alias to avoid breaking support for non device tree users [ Upstream commit 4540b9fbd8ebb21bb3735796d300a1589ee5fbf2 ] Module alias "spi:93xx46" is used by non device tree users like drivers/misc/eeprom/digsy_mtc_eeprom.c and removing it will break support for them. Fix this by adding back the module alias "spi:93xx46". Fixes: 13613a2246bf ("misc: eeprom_93xx46: Fix module alias to enable module autoprobe") Signed-off-by: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113051253.15061-1-a-govindraju@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c index 6adf979299667..414dcbd3c3c25 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/eeprom_93xx46.c @@ -510,4 +510,5 @@ module_spi_driver(eeprom_93xx46_driver); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for 93xx46 EEPROMs"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx>"); +MODULE_ALIAS("spi:93xx46"); MODULE_ALIAS("spi:eeprom-93xx46");