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 <mwi...@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.com>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 1 -
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index 1786574..a21407d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -989,4 +989,3 @@ module_exit(cleanup_ipmi);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <miny...@mvista.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux device interface for the IPMI message handler.");
-MODULE_ALIAS("platform:ipmi_si");
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index a112c01..20ebdf9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -3927,3 +3927,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <miny...@mvista.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Interface to the IPMI driver for the KCS, SMIC, and BT"
" system interfaces.");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: ipmi_devintf");
--
2.10.2
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