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. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/