ipmi: add MODULE_ALIAS to load ipmi_devintf with ipmi_si
authorScott James Remnant <[email protected]>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:01:18 +0000 (14:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:38:47 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
The ipmi_devintf module contains the userspace interface for IPMI devices,
yet will not be loaded automatically with a system interface handler
driver.

Add a MODULE_ALIAS for the "platform:ipmi_si" MODALIAS exported by the
ipmi_si driver, so that userspace knows of the recommendation.

Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Gardner <[email protected]>
Cc: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [2.6.27.x, maybe earlier?]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c

index 835a33c8d5f510c7ff0ae3e0360e6ef8ec7f2551..1d7b429f7ffaf8dd0ad262cfee1e513e4afa1ff9 100644 (file)
@@ -957,3 +957,4 @@ module_exit(cleanup_ipmi);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <[email protected]>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux device interface for the IPMI message handler.");
+MODULE_ALIAS("platform:ipmi_si");