From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752323AbbBVXcF (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:32:05 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:40622 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752107AbbBVXcD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:32:03 -0500 Message-ID: <54EA66BF.6090000@roeck-us.net> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:31:11 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Delvare CC: =?windows-1252?Q?Pali_Roh=E1r?= , 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 References: <201502221250.49466@pali> <54EA12DC.1000403@roeck-us.net> <201502221844.54371@pali> <54EA1BC4.9080606@roeck-us.net> <20150222230741.051f12b9@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20150222230741.051f12b9@endymion.delvare> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-CTCH-PVer: 0000001 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.54EA66F1.00C0,ss=1,re=0.001,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-Score: 0.001 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: C_4847, X-CTCH-SenderID: linux@roeck-us.net X-CTCH-SenderID-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalMessages: 2 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSpam: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalSuspected: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalConfirmed: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalBulk: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalVirus: 0 X-CTCH-SenderID-TotalRecipients: 0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: mailgid no entry from get_relayhosts_entry X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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