This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/omap: panel-sony-acx565akm.c: Add MODULE_ALIAS
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: drm-omap-panel-sony-acx565akm.c-add-module_alias.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Jarkko Nikula jarkko.nikula@bitmer.com Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:12:16 +0200 Subject: drm/omap: panel-sony-acx565akm.c: Add MODULE_ALIAS
From: Jarkko Nikula jarkko.nikula@bitmer.com
[ Upstream commit 42f7f3c4811b3149253ecf2e133832c969884466 ]
Add module alias for Sony ACX565AKM LCD panel. This makes it probe on Nokia N900 when panel driver is built as a module.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula jarkko.nikula@bitmer.com Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen@ti.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/displays/panel-sony-acx565akm.c @@ -912,6 +912,7 @@ static struct spi_driver acx565akm_drive
module_spi_driver(acx565akm_driver);
+MODULE_ALIAS("spi:sony,acx565akm"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Nokia Corporation"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("acx565akm LCD Driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jarkko.nikula@bitmer.com are
queue-4.9/drm-omap-panel-sony-acx565akm.c-add-module_alias.patch