From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752326AbbBVWHr (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:07:47 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40343 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752102AbbBVWHq (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2015 17:07:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:07:41 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Pali =?UTF-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Steven Honeyman , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Jochen Eisinger , Gabriele Mazzotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org Subject: Re: i8k: move driver from char to hwmon Message-ID: <20150222230741.051f12b9@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <54EA1BC4.9080606@roeck-us.net> References: <201502221250.49466@pali> <54EA12DC.1000403@roeck-us.net> <201502221844.54371@pali> <54EA1BC4.9080606@roeck-us.net> Organization: SUSE Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:11:16 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > I would still leave the driver name alone, though; the problem > is that "modprobe i8k" is mentioned in pretty much all references > to the driver. This might be solved with a module alias? You can pass any arbitrary string to MODULE_ALIAS(). This would still break insmod but pretty much everyone is calling modprobe to load kernel modules anyway. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support