On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:52:58 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Unfortunately, a lot of stuff in the kernel has size limitations, so
> "thinkpad-acpi" ends up eating up too much real estate. We were using
> "tpacpi" in symbols already, but this shorthand was not visible to
> userland.
>
> Document that the driver will use tpacpi as a short hand where necessary,
> and use it to name the kernel thread for NVRAM polling (now named
> "ktpacpi_nvramd").
>
> Also, register a module alias with the shorthand. One can refer to the
> module using the shorthand name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 5 +++++
> drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 8 ++++++--
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
> index bbc8275..0f403ff 100644
> --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
> @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
> moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
> 2.6.22, and release 0.14.
>
> +The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module
> +names, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace issues.
> +
> +"tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too
> +long due to lenght limitations on some Linux kernel versions.
length
>
> Status
> ------
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~Randy
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