linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] ipmi: Setup ipmi_devintf automatically if ipmi

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Message-ID: <1413793733.2678.10.camel@pdbcooper.pdb.fsc.net>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:28:53 +0200
From:	"Wilck, Martin" <martin.wilck@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"minyard@....org" <minyard@....org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"trenn@...e.de" <trenn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ipmi: Setup ipmi_devintf automatically if
 ipmi_msghandler gets loaded

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