4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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);