modprobe is not able to resolve sysfs modalias for mei devices.
# cat
/sys/class/watchdog/watchdog0/device/watchdog/watchdog0/device/modalias
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
# modprobe --set-version 4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 -R
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
modprobe: FATAL: Module mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: not
found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64
# cat /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64/modules.alias | grep
05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab
alias mei:*:05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:*:* mei_wdt
commit b26864cad1 ("mei: bus: add client protocol
version to the device alias"), however sysfs modalias
is still in formmat mei:S:uuid:*.
This patch equates format of uevent and sysfs modalias so that modprobe
is able to resolve the aliases.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 4.7+
Fixes: commit b26864cad1 ("mei: bus: add client protocol version to the device alias")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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