Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ibm-acpi moving to drivers/misc

[Shem M. <mul...@gm...>]

On 3/13/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hm...@hm...> wrote:
> It would be nice to have
> ALSA stuff in a separate module, for example.

Some distributions have modprobe-based mechanisms for loading ALSA
drivers. They might react unfavorably to ALSA drivers loaded by other
means.


> For the name, I think I favour "tp_*", so we'd have tp_acpi (most of what is
> ibm-acpi today), etc.  It is not as descriptive as I'd like, but thinkpad_*
> is already taken by out-of-tree stuff.

I vote for "thinkpad_*", since "tp_" seems too ambiguous. Iis there
any concrete collision?

FWIW, I'm awaiting an opportunity to rename tp_smapi to
thinkpad_smapi; and thinkpad_ec is already OK.

  Shem