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.
--- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c.orig 2012-07-26 09:18:58.000000000 -0500 +++ drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c 2012-07-26 09:29:37.000000000 -0500 @@ -2267,6 +2267,8 @@ static struct pnp_driver ipmi_pnp_driver .remove = __devexit_p(ipmi_pnp_remove), .id_table = pnp_dev_table, }; + +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pnp, pnp_dev_table); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DMI -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/