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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