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SubjectRe: 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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