[PATCH 1.4.11 1/2] OpenIPMI initscript and config file

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:24AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch at dell.com) said: 
> > +	if [ "${DEV_IPMI}" = "1" ]; then
> > +	    modprobe ipmi_devintf || RETVAL=2
> > +	    if [ "${RETVAL}" != "2" ]; then
> > +                # Note, this really should be done by udev on 2.6
> > +		DEVMAJOR=`cat /proc/devices | awk '/ipmidev/{print $1}'`
> > +		mknod -m 0600 /dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM} c ${DEVMAJOR} 0 || RETVAL=2
> > +		ln -sf /dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM} /dev/ipmi || RETVAL=2
> > +	    fi
> > +	fi
> 
> Why isn't the driver fixed to populate sysfs properly? 

Just-in-time programming.  Corey submitted class_simple support this
evening.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111654581209165&

That'll handle the kernels where it exists, still need to handle the
cases where it doesn't.  I'll add a test for existance of the dev
file, and fall back to creating the devnode here if it doesn't exist.

> > +
> > +	start_watchdog
> > +	start_powercontrol
> > +	if [ "${IPMI_IMB}" = "1" ]; then
> > +	    modprobe ipmi_imb || RETVAL=2
> > +	    # FIXME create canonical /dev/foo entry
> > +	fi
> > +	if [ "${IPMI_RADISYS}" = "1" ]; then
> > +	    modprobe ipmi_radisys || RETVAL=2
> > +	    # FIXME create canonical /dev/foo entry
> > +	fi
> > +	return
> 
> How many, if any, of these modules can be detected for the
> proper hardware?

You're thinking of using kudzu instead?  Possible, though the data is
scattered throughout ACPI and SMBIOS tables, when it is known.  That's
more than I was up for this week.  Future incremental change?

Thanks,
Matt

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