This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent to the 4.12-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: spmi-include-of-based-modalias-in-device-uevent.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d50daa2af2618dab6d21634e65a5fbcf4ae437d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:46:44 -0700 Subject: spmi: Include OF based modalias in device uevent From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d50daa2af2618dab6d21634e65a5fbcf4ae437d6 upstream. Include the OF-based modalias in the uevent sent when registering SPMI devices, so that user space has a chance to autoload the kernel module for the device. Tested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spmi/spmi.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/spmi/spmi.c +++ b/drivers/spmi/spmi.c @@ -365,11 +365,23 @@ static int spmi_drv_remove(struct device return 0; } +static int spmi_drv_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env) +{ + int ret; + + ret = of_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env); + if (ret != -ENODEV) + return ret; + + return 0; +} + static struct bus_type spmi_bus_type = { .name = "spmi", .match = spmi_device_match, .probe = spmi_drv_probe, .remove = spmi_drv_remove, + .uevent = spmi_drv_uevent, }; /** Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/spmi-include-of-based-modalias-in-device-uevent.patch