3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@linaro.org> commit d50daa2af2618dab6d21634e65a5fbcf4ae437d6 upstream. Include the OF-based modalias in the uevent sent when registering SPMI devices, so that user space has a chance to autoload the kernel module for the device. Tested-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sb...@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/spmi/spmi.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/spmi/spmi.c +++ b/drivers/spmi/spmi.c @@ -353,11 +353,23 @@ static int spmi_drv_remove(struct device return 0; } +static int spmi_drv_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env) +{ + int ret; + + ret = of_device_uevent_modalias(dev, env); + if (ret != -ENODEV) + return ret; + + return 0; +} + static struct bus_type spmi_bus_type = { .name = "spmi", .match = spmi_device_match, .probe = spmi_drv_probe, .remove = spmi_drv_remove, + .uevent = spmi_drv_uevent, }; /**