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

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 18:48 +0200, 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")
> ---
> 
> I think it makes sense if this goes in via ppc (with stable tag added).
> D'accord?

Sure, I've grabbed it.

I added:

    Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.9+

cheers