ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add compatibility MODULE_ALIAS entry

Add a ibm_acpi module alias for userpace, so that modprobe ibm_acpi will
still load the correct driver.  This alias can be removed in the future,
probably two years from now if nothing warrants removing it sooner.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
index bb789db4d334..90ffc4670a01 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION(IBM_DESC);
 MODULE_VERSION(IBM_VERSION);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
+/* Please remove this in year 2009 */
+MODULE_ALIAS("ibm_acpi");
+
 #define __unused __attribute__ ((unused))
 
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