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Pratyush Anand
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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 commitb26864cad1("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: commitb26864cad1("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>