[PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention

Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-03-10T06:24:56Z

Rename nova-core driver from "NovaCore" to "nova-core" and nova-drm
driver from "Nova" to "nova-drm" to follow kernel naming conventions
before these names become UAPI (e.g. exposed via driver_override).

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1228
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs | 4 ++--
drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
index b1af0a099551..addf70c33cb2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ pub(crate) struct NovaData {
major: 0,
minor: 0,
patchlevel: 0,
- name: c"nova",
+ name: c"nova-drm",
desc: c"Nvidia Graphics",
};

-const NOVA_CORE_MODULE_NAME: &CStr = c"NovaCore";
+const NOVA_CORE_MODULE_NAME: &CStr = c"nova-core";
const AUXILIARY_NAME: &CStr = c"nova-drm";

kernel::auxiliary_device_table!(
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
index 8893e58ee0db..1fd454c7e0df 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@

kernel::module_auxiliary_driver! {
type: NovaDriver,
- name: "Nova",
+ name: "nova-drm",
authors: ["Danilo Krummrich"],
description: "Nova GPU driver",
license: "GPL v2",
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
index c1121e7c64c5..90e98380687b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

kernel::module_pci_driver! {
type: driver::NovaCore,
- name: "NovaCore",
+ name: "nova-core",
authors: ["Danilo Krummrich"],
description: "Nova Core GPU driver",
license: "GPL v2",
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