Comment 26 for bug 359719

The fix is incorrect. The name in symbols/br does not affect layout configuration tools - it is base.xml.in that is used. But I do not want to have it there, I'll tell you why. If user chooses one of thinkpad xkb models, the default layout should automatically become br(thinkpad). That's the way rules should work.

setxkbmap -model thinkpad -layout br -print -option ''
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+br(thinkpad)+inet(evdev)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "thinkpad(intl)" };
};