This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PCI: Generate uppercase hex for modalias interface class to the 3.17-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: pci-generate-uppercase-hex-for-modalias-interface-class.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 89ec3dcf17fd3fa009ecf8faaba36828dd6bc416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:57:57 +0200 Subject: PCI: Generate uppercase hex for modalias interface class From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> commit 89ec3dcf17fd3fa009ecf8faaba36828dd6bc416 upstream. Some implementations of modprobe fail to load the driver for a PCI device automatically because the "interface" part of the modalias from the kernel is lowercase, and the modalias from file2alias is uppercase. The "interface" is the low-order byte of the Class Code, defined in PCI r3.0, Appendix D. Most interface types defined in the spec do not use alpha characters, so they won't be affected. For example, 00h, 01h, 10h, 20h, etc. are unaffected. Print the "interface" byte of the Class Code in uppercase hex, as we already do for the Vendor ID, Device ID, Class, etc. [bhelgaas: changelog] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct devi { struct pci_dev *pci_dev = to_pci_dev(dev); - return sprintf(buf, "pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02x\n", + return sprintf(buf, "pci:v%08Xd%08Xsv%08Xsd%08Xbc%02Xsc%02Xi%02X\n", pci_dev->vendor, pci_dev->device, pci_dev->subsystem_vendor, pci_dev->subsystem_device, (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 16), (u8)(pci_dev->class >> 8), Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/pci-generate-uppercase-hex-for-modalias-interface-class.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html