diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
index b651968177a5..afb16704221c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
@@ -237,58 +237,22 @@ static struct device_attribute vmbus_device_attrs[] = {
  * This routine is invoked when a device is added or removed on the vmbus to
  * generate a uevent to udev in the userspace. The udev will then look at its
  * rule and the uevent generated here to load the appropriate driver
+ *
+ * The alias string will be of the form vmbus:guid where guid is the string
+ * representation of the device guid (each byte of the guid will be
+ * represented with two hex characters.
  */
 static int vmbus_uevent(struct device *device, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
 {
 	struct hv_device *dev = device_to_hv_device(device);
-	int ret;
+	int i, ret;
+	char alias_name[((sizeof((struct hv_vmbus_device_id *)0)->guid) + 1) * 2];
 
-	ret = add_uevent_var(env, "VMBUS_DEVICE_CLASS_GUID={"
-			     "%02x%02x%02x%02x-%02x%02x-%02x%02x-"
-			     "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x}",
-			     dev->dev_type.b[3],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[2],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[1],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[0],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[5],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[4],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[7],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[6],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[8],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[9],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[10],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[11],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[12],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[13],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[14],
-			     dev->dev_type.b[15]);
+	for (i = 0; i < ((sizeof((struct hv_vmbus_device_id *)0)->guid) * 2); i += 2)
+		sprintf(&alias_name[i], "%02x", dev->dev_type.b[i/2]);
 
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	ret = add_uevent_var(env, "VMBUS_DEVICE_DEVICE_GUID={"
-			     "%02x%02x%02x%02x-%02x%02x-%02x%02x-"
-			     "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x}",
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[3],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[2],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[1],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[0],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[5],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[4],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[7],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[6],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[8],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[9],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[10],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[11],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[12],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[13],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[14],
-			     dev->dev_instance.b[15]);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
-	return 0;
+	ret = add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=vmbus:%s", alias_name);
+	return ret;
 }