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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index a77da28a6f8e..a41bc893f8d6 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 length limitations on some Linux kernel versions. Status ------ |