linux-kernel - TPM.ko module rename (was tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c)

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Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:50:01 +0200
From:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>
To:	tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@...leylai.com>
Cc:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Leonidas Da Silva Barbosa <leosilva@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rajiv Andrade <mail@...jiv.net>,
	Sirrix AG <tpmdd@...rix.com>
Subject: TPM.ko module rename (was tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c)

Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2013, 07:05:04 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:14:18AM +0200, Peter H?we wrote:
> > > I botched the makefile changes for the new .c files.
> > > 
> > > I believe it should be like this:
> > > 
> > > obj-$(CONFIG_TCG_TPM) += tpm-core.o
> > > tpm-core-y := tpm.o tpm-dev.o tpm-sysfs.o
> > > 
> 
> It looks like my solution changes the tpm module name to tpm-core.o.
> This should be noted in the commit log:
> 
>  In doing so we also change the core tpm module name from 'tpm' to
> 'tpm-core', this is because kbuild does not like it if a multi-file module
> has a .c file of the same name.
> 
> Is that OK? It follows the pattern other systems have in the kernel.


Hmm,
I'm not 100% sure what's the usual procedure for module renames, especially 
since this is visible in userspace.

For users the easiest way would be to rename tpm.c to tpm-core.c and leave the 
module name as it is.
In git that's just a simple rename operation.

Thanks,
Peter
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