This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload 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: tty-serial-msm-fix-module-autoload.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 abe81f3b8ed2996e1712d26d38ff6b73f582c616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 11:57:20 -0300 Subject: tty: serial: msm: Fix module autoload From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit abe81f3b8ed2996e1712d26d38ff6b73f582c616 upstream. If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered device with the corresponding module. Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro. Before this patch: $ modinfo drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias $ After this patch: $ modinfo drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.ko | grep alias alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdmC* alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartdm alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uartC* alias: of:N*T*Cqcom,msm-uart Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -1809,6 +1809,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id msm_mat { .compatible = "qcom,msm-uartdm" }, {} }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, msm_match_table); static struct platform_driver msm_platform_driver = { .remove = msm_serial_remove, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tty-serial-msm-fix-module-autoload.patch