This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias 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: mei-make-sysfs-modalias-format-similar-as-uevent-modalias.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 6f9193ec044a8f72d8b6ae94a5c4ab6e8b0f00ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 22:08:24 +0300 Subject: mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias From: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 6f9193ec044a8f72d8b6ae94a5c4ab6e8b0f00ca upstream. modprobe is not able to resolve sysfs modalias for mei devices. # cat /sys/class/watchdog/watchdog0/device/watchdog/watchdog0/device/modalias mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: # modprobe --set-version 4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 -R mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: modprobe: FATAL: Module mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: not found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 # cat /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64/modules.alias | grep 05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab alias mei:*:05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:*:* mei_wdt commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol version to the device alias"), however sysfs modalias is still in formmat mei:S:uuid:*. This patch equates format of uevent and sysfs modalias so that modprobe is able to resolve the aliases. Fixes: commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol version to the device alias") Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c @@ -678,8 +678,10 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct devi { struct mei_cl_device *cldev = to_mei_cl_device(dev); const uuid_le *uuid = mei_me_cl_uuid(cldev->me_cl); + u8 version = mei_me_cl_ver(cldev->me_cl); - return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "mei:%s:%pUl:", cldev->name, uuid); + return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "mei:%s:%pUl:%02X:", + cldev->name, uuid, version); } static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from panand@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/mei-make-sysfs-modalias-format-similar-as-uevent-modalias.patch