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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index a77da28a6f8..a41bc893f8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel 2.6.22, and release 0.14. +The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module +names, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace issues. + +"tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too +long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions. Status ------ diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c index 5e25abc5400..2b73dfafac9 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c @@ -133,8 +133,11 @@ enum { #define TPACPI_PROC_DIR "ibm" #define TPACPI_ACPI_EVENT_PREFIX "ibm" #define TPACPI_DRVR_NAME TPACPI_FILE +#define TPACPI_DRVR_SHORTNAME "tpacpi" #define TPACPI_HWMON_DRVR_NAME TPACPI_NAME "_hwmon" +#define TPACPI_NVRAM_KTHREAD_NAME "ktpacpi_nvramd" + #define TPACPI_MAX_ACPI_ARGS 3 /* Debugging */ @@ -1523,8 +1526,7 @@ static void hotkey_poll_setup(int may_warn) (tpacpi_inputdev->users > 0 || hotkey_report_mode < 2)) { if (!tpacpi_hotkey_task) { tpacpi_hotkey_task = kthread_run(hotkey_kthread, - NULL, - TPACPI_FILE "d"); + NULL, TPACPI_NVRAM_KTHREAD_NAME); if (IS_ERR(tpacpi_hotkey_task)) { tpacpi_hotkey_task = NULL; printk(TPACPI_ERR @@ -6316,6 +6318,8 @@ static int __init thinkpad_acpi_module_init(void) /* Please remove this in year 2009 */ MODULE_ALIAS("ibm_acpi"); +MODULE_ALIAS(TPACPI_DRVR_SHORTNAME); + /* * DMI matching for module autoloading * |