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

From: Wilck, Martin
Date: Fri Oct 24 2014 - 06:41:11 EST


Thomas,

> > I vote for MODULE_SOFTDEP for upstream, and modalias for distros that
> > don't support MODULE_SOFTDEP yet.
> I vote for ipmi_msghandler.c renaming into ipmi_handler.c

sorry, I am not with you here. This is a small problem that should be
handled with small effort. Why apply a 3-part patch set for a problem
that can be solved with 2 modalias lines in user space?

Martin