Re: [patch 1/3] ipmi: Setup ipmi_devintf automatically if ipmi_msghandler gets loaded

[Wilck, Martin]

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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