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

[Ulf Hansson]

On 11 February 2016 at 18:19, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't the Fixes tag take care of that?

Kind regards
Uffe