--- /dev/null
+From 6b043b9b676e88a80e3d4013863c5e970fdde1df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>
+Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:31:03 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] mbim-device: prefer realpath() to canonicalize_file_name()
+
+Usually the canonicalize_file_name() GNU extension is preferred to the
+POSIX realpath(), as it covers some of the limitations the latter has.
+But this extension isn't available in lots of platforms or in other
+c library implementations (e.g. musl), so just default to the POSIX
+method to improve portability.
+
+Note that the check for canonicalize_file_name() availability during
+configure isn't as trivial as adding a new AC_CHECK_FUNCS(), and
+importing a gnulib module seems overkill just for this one liner.
+
+(cherry picked from commit 417b0b80023dc30d61c111ec0a54da2884d3a541)
+Signed-off-by: Aleksander Morgado <aleksander@aleksander.es>
+---
+ src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c b/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
+index e1f32a6..20e64af 100644
+--- a/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
++++ b/src/libmbim-glib/mbim-device.c
+@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ get_descriptors_filepath (MbimDevice *self)
+ * /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:2.0
+ */
+ tmp = g_strdup_printf ("/sys/class/%s/%s/device", subsystems[i], device_basename);
+- path = canonicalize_file_name (tmp);
++ path = realpath (tmp, NULL);
+ g_free (tmp);
+
+ if (g_file_test (path, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
+--
+2.13.1
+