Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753412AbYJUQPp (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:15:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751552AbYJUQPh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:15:37 -0400 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([198.107.51.143]:4002 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751277AbYJUQPg (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:15:36 -0400 To: minyard@acm.org Subject: [PATCH v2] add MODULE_ALIAS to load ipmi_devintf with ipmi_si Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, scott@canonical.com Message-Id: <20081021161536.D7CD65A15E@sepang.rtg.net> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:15:36 -0600 (MDT) From: timg@tpi.com (Tim Gardner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1482 Lines: 38 >From 07463c240c3609c1e2fbed45f64acd5fd061ce58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:18:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] add MODULE_ALIAS to load ipmi_devintf with ipmi_si 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. Seems like a candidate for stable kernel updates. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner --- 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"); -- 1.5.6.3 -- 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/