On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:19:24AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx) 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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