ipmi: create hardware-independent softdep for ipmi_devintf
When a computer has an IPMI system interface, the device interface
is most probably also desired. Autoloading of ipmi_devintf currently
works only if ipmi_si has allocated a platform device. That doesn't
happen if the SI interface was detected e.g. via ACPI. But ACPI
detection is preferred these days, see e.g. kernel.org bug 46741.
This patch introduces a softdep in place of the existing modalias
for ipmi_devintf.
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
I moved this to ipmi_msghandler.c, so it works for all IPMI
interfaces. Retested by Martin.
Tested-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index be982d1..92e53ac 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -4646,3 +4646,4 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <minyard@mvista.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Incoming and outgoing message routing for an IPMI"
" interface.");
MODULE_VERSION(IPMI_DRIVER_VERSION);
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: ipmi_devintf");