Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-10

Re: of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible'

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2016-06-10 03:26:39
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On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 16:48:38 UTC, Wolfram Sang wrote:
Because of an improper dereference, a stray 'C' character was output to
the modalias when no 'compatible' was specified. This is the case for
some old PowerMac drivers which only set the 'name' property. Fix it to
let them match again.

Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <redacted>
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <redacted>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <redacted>
Fixes: 6543becf26fff6 ("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling")
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b3c0a4dab7e35a9b6d69c04156

cheers
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