From 070cbd1d42aa0e359c9957cd73c2a529dec62047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:55:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: create hardware-independent softdep for ipmi_devintf
When a computer has an IPMI system interface, the device interface
is most probably also desired. Autoloading of ipmi_devintf currently
works only if ipmi_si has allocated a platform device. That doesn't
happen if the SI interface was detected e.g. via ACPI. But ACPI
detection is preferred these days, see e.g. kernel.org bug 46741.
This patch introduces a softdep in place of the existing modalias
for ipmi_devintf.
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
I moved this to ipmi_msghandler.c, so it works for all IPMI
interfaces. Retested by Martin.
Tested-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 1 -
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index 1786574536b21..a21407de46aeb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -989,4 +989,3 @@ module_exit(cleanup_ipmi);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <minyard@mvista.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Linux device interface for the IPMI message handler.");
-MODULE_ALIAS("platform:ipmi_si");
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index be982d10d305c..92e53acf2cd20 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -4646,3 +4646,4 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Corey Minyard <minyard@mvista.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Incoming and outgoing message routing for an IPMI"
" interface.");
MODULE_VERSION(IPMI_DRIVER_VERSION);
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("post: ipmi_devintf");