From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935748Ab3IELgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:36:46 -0400 Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.25]:60369 "EHLO vms173025pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935594Ab3IELgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Sep 2013 07:36:45 -0400 From: minyard@acm.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel , OpenIPMI Developers , "Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com" , Jordan Hargrave , Corey Minyard Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Add MODULE_ALIAS for autoloading ipmi driver on ACPI systems Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:36:35 -0500 Message-id: <1378380996-4844-4-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-reply-to: <1378380996-4844-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> References: <1378380996-4844-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Jordan_Hargrave@Dell.com" I'd submitted this about a year ago but it never made it upstream. The latest versions of the kernel drivers for ipmi can use ACPI to determine the type of BMC device used in the system. The following patch adds a module alias so that udev will autoload the ipmi_si driver. Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index af4b23f..810372c 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2279,6 +2279,8 @@ static struct pnp_driver ipmi_pnp_driver = { .remove = ipmi_pnp_remove, .id_table = pnp_dev_table, }; + +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pnp, pnp_dev_table); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DMI -- 1.7.9.5