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Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:57:36 +0100
From:	Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@....tu-dresden.de>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Evan McClain <evan.mcclain@...ech.edu>, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: mbp_nvidia_bl - add five more MacBook	variants

Hi,

On 10.03.2010 16:47, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:45:43PM +0100, Mario Schwalbe wrote:
>
>> Tested using a simple program that writes the ports from userland.
>> And ack: it should probably be renamed to something more reasonable.
>> Something like apple_bl?
>
> Sure. Want to do a patch for that and Kconfig? It probably wants a
> module alias line for backwards compatibility.

Why not? How should the module alias line look like?
MODULE_ALIAS("mbp_nvidia_bl");
Or prefixed with some subsystem identifier? I've never used it before.

Thanks & ciao,
Mario
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