[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "serial: arc_uart: Fix module alias" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    serial: arc_uart: Fix module alias

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From fadac00c6f8106ec6ec4832fac7ed98703402ce0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:15 +0800
Subject: serial: arc_uart: Fix module alias

commit d5a12ea7a9e58d9e5c19d25cb668aadb396423ec upstream.

Platform drivers use "platform:" prefix in module alias.
Also use DRIVER_NAME in MODULE_ALIAS to make module autoloading work.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin at ingics.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
index 3e0b3fa..c4e06db 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
@@ -741,6 +741,6 @@ module_init(arc_serial_init);
 module_exit(arc_serial_exit);

 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-MODULE_ALIAS("plat-arcfpga/uart");
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" DRIVER_NAME);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Vineet Gupta");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ARC(Synopsys) On-Chip(fpga) serial driver");
--
1.8.1.2