Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:31:11 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: i8k: move driver from char to hwmon |
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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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