This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/omap: panel-sony-acx565akm.c: Add MODULE_ALIAS
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:
drm-omap-panel-sony-acx565akm.c-add-module_alias.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 foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:12:16 +0200
Subject: drm/omap: panel-sony-acx565akm.c: Add MODULE_ALIAS
From: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 42f7f3c4811b3149253ecf2e133832c969884466 ]
Add module alias for Sony ACX565AKM LCD panel. This makes it probe on Nokia
N900 when panel driver is built as a module.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c
@@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ static struct spi_driver acx565akm_drive
module_spi_driver(acx565akm_driver);
+MODULE_ALIAS("spi:sony,acx565akm");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Nokia Corporation");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("acx565akm LCD Driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarkko.nikula@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/drm-omap-panel-sony-acx565akm.c-add-module_alias.patch