Patch "mtd: nand: tango: Export OF device ID table as module aliases" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: nand: tango: Export OF device ID table as module aliases
to the 4.11-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:
mtd-nand-tango-export-of-device-id-table-as-module-aliases.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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2761b4f12b017f6d3e5add386733a700a490df47Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andres Galacho <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 16:30:15 -0400
Subject: mtd: nand: tango: Export OF device ID table as module aliases
From: Andres Galacho <[email protected]>
commit 2761b4f12b017f6d3e5add386733a700a490df47 upstream.
The device table is required to load modules based on modaliases. After adding MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, below entries for example will be added to module.alias:
alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8758-nandC* alias: of:N*T*Csigma,smp8758-nand
--- drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/mtd/nand/tango_nand.c +1 -0
@@ -661,6 +661,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id tango_n { .compatible = "sigma,smp8758-nand" }, {/* sentinel */ } }; +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (of, tango_nand_ids);static struct platform_driver tango_nand_driver = { .probe = tango_nand_probe,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.11/mtd-nand-tango-export-of-device-id-table-as-module-aliases.patch