Patch "platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: 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

platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: 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:
platform-x86-intel_mid_thermal-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: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:36:54 +0000
Subject: platform/x86: intel_mid_thermal: Fix module autoload

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a93151a72061e944a4915458b1b1d6d505c03bbf ]

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/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias
$

After this patch:

$ modinfo drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.ko | grep alias
alias:          platform:msic_thermal

---
 drivers/platform/x86/intel_mid_thermal.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ static const struct platform_device_id t
 	{ "msic_thermal", 1 },
 	{ }
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(platform, therm_id_table);
 
 static struct platform_driver mid_thermal_driver = {
 	.driver = {

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

queue-4.9/platform-x86-intel_mid_thermal-fix-module-autoload.patch