Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753660AbYJUPmg (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:42:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751127AbYJUPm2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:42:28 -0400 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([198.107.51.143]:2750 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751020AbYJUPm1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:42:27 -0400 Message-ID: <48FDF864.9070705@tpi.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:42:28 -0600 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott James Remnant CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, 286977@bugs.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] add MODULE_ALIAS to load ipmi_devintf with ipmi_si References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 38 Scott James Remnant wrote: > The ipmi_devintf module contains the userspace interface for IPMI > devices, yet will not be loaded automatically with a system > interface handler driver. > > Add a MODULE_ALIAS for the "platform:ipmi_si" MODALIAS exported by > the ipmi_si driver, so that userspace knows of the recommendation. > > Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant > --- > drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c > index 64e1c16..ecaf369 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c > +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c > @@ -957,3 +957,4 @@ module_exit(cleanup_ipmi); > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard "); > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux device interface for the IPMI message handler."); > +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:ipmi_si"); Seems like a candidate for the stable kernel. If you add the line: Cc: stable@kernel.org it will happen automagically when Linus merges it into his tree. Can you resubmit with this line added? rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/