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

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 23:26:46 EST


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 <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 6543becf26fff6 ("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling")

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

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

cheers