Re: [PATCH] Revert "mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as module"

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:54:11PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> This reverts commit 829b6962f7e3cfc06f7c5c26269fd47ad48cf503.
> 
> Revert this change as it causes a sysfs path to change and therefore
> introduces and ABI regression. More precisely Android's vold is not being
> able to access /sys/module/mmcblk/parameters/perdev_minors any more, since
> the path becomes changed to: "/sys/module/mmc_block/..."
> 
> Fixes: 829b6962f7e3 ("mmc: block: don't use parameter prefix if built as
> module")
> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please also add a "cc: stable..." tag to the patch so it gets picked up
in stable kernel releases.

thanks,

greg k-h