This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ata: ahci-imx: Fix MODULE_ALIAS to the 4.9-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: ata-ahci-imx-fix-module_alias.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 979556f1521a835a059de3b117b9c6c6642c7d58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:11:05 +0200 Subject: ata: ahci-imx: Fix MODULE_ALIAS From: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 979556f1521a835a059de3b117b9c6c6642c7d58 upstream. 'ahci:' is an invalid prefix, preventing the module from autoloading. Fix this by using the 'platform:' prefix and DRV_NAME. Fixes: 9e54eae23bc9 ("ahci_imx: add ahci sata support on imx platforms") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci_imx.c @@ -691,4 +691,4 @@ module_platform_driver(imx_ahci_driver); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale i.MX AHCI SATA platform driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Richard Zhu <Hong-Xing.Zhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_ALIAS("ahci:imx"); +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRV_NAME); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ata-ahci-imx-fix-module_alias.patch