diff --git a/OpenIPMI.spec b/OpenIPMI.spec
index c54982d..99bb2a9 100644
--- a/OpenIPMI.spec
+++ b/OpenIPMI.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Summary: IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools
 Name: OpenIPMI
 
 Version:    2.0.28
-Release:    2%{?dist}
+Release:    3%{?dist}
 License:    LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ or BSD
 URL:        http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/
 Source:     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openipmi/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ echo ".so man1/openipmish.1" > %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/ipmish.1
 %{_mandir}/man5/ipmi_sim_cmd.5*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Feb 03 2020 Vaclav Dolezal <vdolezal@redhat.com> - 2.0.28-3
+- Cleanup of openipmi-helper script; removed no-udev branch (#1579773)
+
 * Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.28-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/openipmi-helper b/openipmi-helper
index 4cebfb9..4f3d3d9 100644
--- a/openipmi-helper
+++ b/openipmi-helper
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # ipmi:		OpenIPMI Driver helper script
 #
 # Authors:	Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com>
+# 		Václav Doležal <vdolezal@redhat.com>
 #
 # Based on IPMI init script by:
 #               Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
@@ -30,11 +31,6 @@ INTF_NUM=0
 
 IPMI_SMB_MODULE_NAME="ipmi_smb"
 IPMI_SI_MODULE_NAME="ipmi_si"
-kernel=`uname -r | cut -d. -f1-2`
-if [ "${kernel}" == "2.4" ]; then
-    IPMI_SMB_MODULE_NAME="ipmi_smb_intf"
-    IPMI_SI_MODULE_NAME="ipmi_si_drv"
-fi
 
 MODULES_INTERFACES=""
 [ "${DEV_IPMI}" = "yes" ] && MODULES_INTERFACES="${MODULES_INTERFACES} ipmi_devintf"
@@ -55,17 +51,6 @@ RETVAL=0
 LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/ipmi
 DEV_IPMI_TIMEOUT=150
 
-UDEV_EXISTS=0
-if [ -e /sbin/udev -o -e /sbin/udevd ]; then
-    UDEV_EXISTS=1
-fi
-
-#############################################################################
-# NOTES:
-# * /dev/ipmi0 is unconditionally deleted here on ipmi_devintf unload,
-#   because SLES9 and RHEL4 kernels don't send a message for udev to delete
-#   it for us.
-# 
 #############################################################################
 
 modules_loaded_verbose()
@@ -73,7 +58,7 @@ modules_loaded_verbose()
 	OnePlusLoaded=0
 	OnePlusUnloaded=0
 	for m in $@; do
-		if /sbin/lsmod | grep $m >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+		if /sbin/lsmod | grep -q $m ; then
 			echo "$m module loaded."
 			OnePlusLoaded=1
 		else
@@ -88,7 +73,7 @@ modules_loaded()
 	OnePlusLoaded=0
 	OnePlusUnloaded=0
 	for m in $@; do
-		if /sbin/lsmod | grep $m >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+		if /sbin/lsmod | grep -q $m ; then
 			OnePlusLoaded=1
 		else
 			OnePlusUnloaded=1
@@ -154,13 +139,6 @@ start_watchdog_common()
 		RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 2)) &&
 		echo "Watchdog startup failed: cannot load ipmi_watchdog module" &&
 		return
-	if [ ${UDEV_EXISTS} -eq 0 -a ! -e /dev/watchdog ]; then
-		mknod -m 0600 /dev/watchdog c 10 130
-		[ $? -ne 0 ] &&
-			RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 8)) &&
-			echo "Watchdog startup failed: cannot create /dev/watchdog" &&
-			return
-	fi
 }
 
 start_watchdog_quiet()
@@ -186,10 +164,6 @@ stop_watchdog()
 	if [ ${OnePlusLoaded} -ne 0 ]; then
 	    RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 32))
 	    echo "Watchog shutdown failed: cannot unload ipmi_watchdog module"
-	else
-	    if [ "${IPMI_WATCHDOG}" = "yes" ]; then
-		[ ${UDEV_EXISTS} -eq 0 ] && rm -f /dev/watchdog
-	    fi
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -199,10 +173,6 @@ stop_watchdog_quiet()
 	modules_loaded ipmi_watchdog
 	if [ ${OnePlusLoaded} -ne 0 ]; then
 	    RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 32))
-	else
-	    if [ "${IPMI_WATCHDOG}" = "yes" ]; then
-		[ ${UDEV_EXISTS} -eq 0 ] && rm -f /dev/watchdog
-	    fi
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -211,9 +181,9 @@ start_powercontrol_common()
 	local poweroff_opts=""
 	load_hw_modules
 	if [ "${IPMI_POWERCYCLE}" == "yes" ]; then
-	    modinfo ipmi_poweroff 2>/dev/null | grep poweroff_control > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+	    modinfo ipmi_poweroff 2>/dev/null | grep -q poweroff_control && \
 		poweroff_opts="poweroff_control=2"
-	    modinfo ipmi_poweroff 2>/dev/null | grep poweroff_powercycle > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+	    modinfo ipmi_poweroff 2>/dev/null | grep -q poweroff_powercycle && \
 		poweroff_opts="poweroff_powercycle=1"
 	fi
 	modprobe ipmi_poweroff "${poweroff_opts}" > /dev/null 2>&1
@@ -265,9 +235,6 @@ unload_all_ipmi_modules()
 	for m in ${MODULES}; do
 		modprobe -q -r ${m} > /dev/null 2>&1
 	done
-        # delete interface node ONLY if ipmi_devintf is unloaded
-        [ `lsmod | grep -c "ipmi_devintf"` -eq 0 ] &&
-	        rm -f "/dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM}"
 }
 
 unload_ipmi_modules_leave_features()
@@ -275,10 +242,7 @@ unload_ipmi_modules_leave_features()
 	for m in ${MODULES_INTERFACES}; do
 		modprobe -q -r ${m} > /dev/null 2>&1
 	done
-        # delete interface node ONLY if ipmi_devintf is unloaded
-        [ `lsmod | grep -c "ipmi_devintf"` -eq 0 ] &&
-	        rm -f "/dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM}"
-	lsmod | egrep -q "ipmi_(poweroff|watchdog)" > /dev/null 2>&1
+	lsmod | grep -Eq "ipmi_(poweroff|watchdog)"
 	if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
 		stop_watchdog_quiet
 		stop_powercontrol_quiet
@@ -302,14 +266,7 @@ load_ipmi_modules ()
 		modprobe ipmi_devintf > /dev/null 2>&1
 		modules_loaded ipmi_devintf
 		RETVAL=$((RETVAL & ~2))
-		[ ${OnePlusLoaded} -eq 0 ] && RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 2))
 		if [ ${OnePlusLoaded} -eq 1 ]; then
-			if [ ${UDEV_EXISTS} -eq 0 ]; then
-				DEVMAJOR=`cat /proc/devices | awk '/ipmidev/{print $1}'`
-				rm -f /dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM}
-				mknod -m 0600 /dev/ipmi${INTF_NUM} c ${DEVMAJOR} 0 || RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 4))
-			fi
-
 			# udev can take several seconds to create /dev/ipmi0, 
 			# but it happens asynchronously, so delay here
 			locdelay=${DEV_IPMI_TIMEOUT}
@@ -317,6 +274,8 @@ load_ipmi_modules ()
 				locdelay=$((locdelay - 1))
 				sleep 0.1
 			done
+		else
+			RETVAL=$((RETVAL | 2))
 		fi
 	fi