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

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On 3/13/07, Shem Multinymous <mul...@gm...> wrote:
> 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?

I prefer thinkpad_* as well.

Alex

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