linux-kernel - Re: i8k: move driver from char to hwmon

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Message-ID: <54EA66BF.6090000@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:31:11 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
CC:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@...il.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jochen Eisinger <jochen@...guin-breeder.org>,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: i8k: move driver from char to hwmon

On 02/22/2015 02:07 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:11:16 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> I would still leave the driver name alone, though; the problem
>> is that "modprobe i8k" is mentioned in pretty much all references
>> to the driver.
>
> This might be solved with a module alias? You can pass any arbitrary
> string to MODULE_ALIAS(). This would still break insmod but pretty much
> everyone is calling modprobe to load kernel modules anyway.
>

You are right, that might work.

Thanks,
Guenter

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