From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Steven Honeyman" <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
"Jochen Eisinger" <jochen@penguin-breeder.org>,
"Gabriele Mazzotta" <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: i8k: move driver from char to hwmon
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:31:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EA66BF.6090000@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150222230741.051f12b9@endymion.delvare>
On 02/22/2015 02:07 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 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.
>
You are right, that might work.
Thanks,
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-22 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-22 11:50 i8k: move driver from char to hwmon Pali Rohár
2015-02-22 17:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-22 17:44 ` Pali Rohár
2015-02-22 17:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-22 18:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-22 22:07 ` Jean Delvare
2015-02-22 23:31 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-04-22 8:23 ` Jean Delvare
2015-04-22 8:42 ` Pali Rohár
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