I'd submitted this about a year ago but it never made it upstream. 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.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 83f85cf..afe3b95 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2246,6 +2246,8 @@ 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 --jordan hargrave Dell Enterprise Linux Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
