From 8127a1c4bada51b94aad2e7ef84f4276309e47ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 01:00:43 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: claim tpacpi as an official short handle (v1.1) Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the kernel has size limitations, so "thinkpad-acpi" ends up eating up too much real estate. We were using "tpacpi" in symbols already, but this shorthand was not visible to userland. Document that the driver will use tpacpi as a short hand where necessary, and use it to name the kernel thread for NVRAM polling (now named "ktpacpi_nvramd"). Also, register a module alias with the shorthand. One can refer to the module using the shorthand name. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh --- Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 5 +++++ drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt index a77da28a6f8..a41bc893f8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/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 0c6c41ccdb0..001e9a72772 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 * -- 2.11.4.GIT