ipmi: add MODULE_ALIAS to load ipmi_devintf with ipmi_si
authorScott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:01:18 +0000 (14:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <scott@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tcanonical@tpi.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x, maybe earlier?]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c

index 835a33c..1d7b429 100644 (file)
@@ -957,3 +957,4 @@ 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");