diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index a77da28a..a41bc89 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 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
 ------
diff --git a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
index 5e25abc..2b73dfa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -133,8 +133,11 @@
 #define TPACPI_PROC_DIR "ibm"
 #define TPACPI_ACPI_EVENT_PREFIX "ibm"
 #define TPACPI_DRVR_NAME TPACPI_FILE
+#define TPACPI_DRVR_SHORTNAME "tpacpi"
 #define TPACPI_HWMON_DRVR_NAME TPACPI_NAME "_hwmon"
 
+#define TPACPI_NVRAM_KTHREAD_NAME "ktpacpi_nvramd"
+
 #define TPACPI_MAX_ACPI_ARGS 3
 
 /* Debugging */
@@ -1523,8 +1526,7 @@
 	    (tpacpi_inputdev->users > 0 || hotkey_report_mode < 2)) {
 		if (!tpacpi_hotkey_task) {
 			tpacpi_hotkey_task = kthread_run(hotkey_kthread,
-							 NULL,
-							 TPACPI_FILE "d");
+					NULL, TPACPI_NVRAM_KTHREAD_NAME);
 			if (IS_ERR(tpacpi_hotkey_task)) {
 				tpacpi_hotkey_task = NULL;
 				printk(TPACPI_ERR
@@ -6316,6 +6318,8 @@
 /* Please remove this in year 2009 */
 MODULE_ALIAS("ibm_acpi");
 
+MODULE_ALIAS(TPACPI_DRVR_SHORTNAME);
+
 /*
  * DMI matching for module autoloading
  *