Patch "hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
hwmon-scpi-fix-module-autoload.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:31:44 -0300
Subject: hwmon: (scpi) Fix module autoload

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>

commit 13edb767aa609b6efb7c0c2b57fbd72a6ded0eed upstream.

If the driver is built as a module, autoload won't work because the module alias information is not filled. So user-space can't match the registered device with the corresponding module.

Export the module alias information using the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro.

Before this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.ko | grep alias
alias:          of:N*T*Carm,scpi-sensorsC*
alias:          of:N*T*Carm,scpi-sensors

---
 drivers/hwmon/scpi-hwmon.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id scpi_of
 	{.compatible = "arm,scpi-sensors"},
 	{},
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, scpi_of_match);
 
 static struct platform_driver scpi_hwmon_platdrv = {
 	.driver = {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/hwmon-scpi-fix-module-autoload.patch