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From: "Wilck, Martin" <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>
To: "minyard@acm.org" <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"trenn@suse.de" <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ipmi: Setup ipmi_devintf automatically if ipmi_msghandler gets loaded
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:28:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413793733.2678.10.camel@pdbcooper.pdb.fsc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54414057.5020806@acm.org>

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On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 18:14 +0200, Corey Minyard wrote:

> How about this.  I did a little research, and there's something called soft
> module dependencies.  Apparently you can add:
> 
> MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: ipmi_devintf")
> 
> to ipmi_msghandler.c and modprobe would load ipmi_devintf after loading
> ipmi_msghandler if it was available.

This is nice, but not commonly available in distro kernels so far.
AFAICS, out of the distros Fujitsu supports, only RHEL7 supports it.

I vote for MODULE_SOFTDEP for upstream, and modalias for distros that
don't support MODULE_SOFTDEP yet.

Martin


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-20  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20141014144020.683892494@d46.suse.de>
     [not found] ` <20141014144315.178850163@d46.suse.de>
2014-10-15  1:22   ` Corey Minyard
2014-10-17  7:49     ` Thomas Renninger
2014-10-17 16:14       ` Corey Minyard
2014-10-20  8:28         ` Wilck, Martin [this message]
2014-10-23  9:56           ` Thomas Renninger
2014-10-24 10:40             ` Wilck, Martin
2014-10-28 12:10               ` Thomas Renninger
     [not found] ` <20141014144315.519093022@d46.suse.de>
2014-10-15  1:26   ` [patch 2/3] ipmi: Remove ipmi_major module parameter and define global IPMI_MAJOR Corey Minyard
2014-10-17  7:55     ` Thomas Renninger
2014-10-17 16:21       ` Corey Minyard
     [not found] ` <20141014144315.728965695@d46.suse.de>
2014-10-15  1:27   ` [patch 3/3] ipmi: Unregister previously registered driver in error case Corey Minyard

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