This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: ar1021_i2c - fix too long name in driver's device table
to the 3.18-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: input-ar1021_i2c-fix-too-long-name-in-driver-s-device-table.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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.
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From: Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:32:57 -0800 Subject: Input: ar1021_i2c - fix too long name in driver's device table
From: Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 95123fc43560d6f4a60e74f72836e63cd8848f76 ]
The name field in structure i2c_device_id is 20 characters, and we expect it to be NULL-terminated, however we are trying to stuff it with 21 bytes and thus NULL-terminator is lost. This causes issues when one creates device with name "MICROCHIP_AR1021_I2C" as i2c core cuts off the last "C", and automatic module loading by alias does not work as result.
The -I2C suffix in the device name is superfluous, we know what bus we are dealing with, so let's drop it. Also, no other driver uses capitals, and the manufacturer name is normally not included, except in very rare cases of incompatible name collisions.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116211 Fixes: dd4cae8bf166 ("Input: Add Microchip AR1021 i2c touchscreen") Reviewed-By: Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner@gmail.com Tested-by: Martin Kepplinger martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/input/touchscreen/ar1021_i2c.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/ar1021_i2c.c +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/ar1021_i2c.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int __maybe_unused ar1021_i2c_res static SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(ar1021_i2c_pm, ar1021_i2c_suspend, ar1021_i2c_resume);
static const struct i2c_device_id ar1021_i2c_id[] = { - { "MICROCHIP_AR1021_I2C", 0 }, + { "ar1021", 0 }, { }, }; MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ar1021_i2c_id);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com are
queue-3.18/input-ar1021_i2c-fix-too-long-name-in-driver-s-device-table.patch
linux-stable-mirror@lists.linaro.org