Re: ibm-acpi moving to drivers/misc

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On 3/14/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 3/13/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > > I vote for "thinkpad_*", since "tp_" seems too ambiguous. Iis there
> > > > > any concrete collision?
> > > >
> > > > I prefer thinkpad_* as well.
> > >
> > > Ok, what about thinkpad-laptop/thinkpad_laptop ?
> >
> > seems a bit redundant, but still better than tp.
>
> It is, as thinkpad implies laptop.
>
> We will probably also have snd_thinkpad, for the ALSA module (if I make it
> into its own module, which is probably a very good idea).
>
> I'd jump in and get thinkpad_acpi for most of the stuff in ibm-acpi, but the
> problem is that there used to exist an thinkpad-acpi module, by Erik
> Rigtorp.  It never made it to mainline (I just checked, it is not in 2.6.9,
> and ibm-acpi was added in 2.6.10 and completely superseeded Erik's module
> which only did hotkeys).
>
> I guess I can retake the name without too much problems after so long and
> since it never made it to mainline AND it was not widely used, but still...
>
> What do you guys think?
>

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Alex

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