This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[media] media: i2c: Don't export ir-kbd-i2c module alias
to the 4.4-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:
media-i2c-don-t-export-ir-kbd-i2c-module-alias.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 329d88da4df9a96da43018aceabd3a06e6a7e7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:03:23 -0200
Subject: [media] media: i2c: Don't export ir-kbd-i2c module alias
From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 329d88da4df9a96da43018aceabd3a06e6a7e7ae upstream.
This is a partial revert of commit ed8d1cf07cb16d ("[media] Export I2C
module alias information in missing drivers") that exported the module
aliases for the I2C drivers that were missing to make autoload to work.
But there is a bug report [0] that auto load of the ir-kbd-i2c driver
cause the Hauppauge HD-PVR driver to not behave correctly.
This is a hdpvr latent bug that was just exposed by ir-kbd-i2c module
autoloading working and will also happen if the I2C driver is built-in
or a user calls modprobe to load the module and register the driver.
But there is a regression experimented by users so until the real bug
is fixed, let's not export the module alias for the ir-kbd-i2c driver
even when this just masks the actual issue.
[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810726
Fixes: ed8d1cf07cb1 ("[media] Export I2C module alias information in missing drivers")
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ir-kbd-i2c.c
@@ -478,7 +478,6 @@ static const struct i2c_device_id ir_kbd
{ "ir_rx_z8f0811_hdpvr", 0 },
{ }
};
-MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ir_kbd_id);
static struct i2c_driver ir_kbd_driver = {
.driver = {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/media-i2c-don-t-export-ir-kbd-i2c-module-alias.patch
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