Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name | | From | Ed L Cashin <> | | Date | Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:31:29 -0500 |
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Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> writes:
> 2006/1/4, Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>: >> Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> >> >> Users were confused by the driver being called "aoe-2.6-$version". >> This form looks less like a Linux kernel version number. >> >> Index: 2.6.15-rc7-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c >> =================================================================== >> --- 2.6.15-rc7-aoe.orig/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c 2006-01-02 13:35:13.000000000 -0500 >> +++ 2.6.15-rc7-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c 2006-01-02 13:35:14.000000000 -0500 >> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ >> } >> >> printk(KERN_INFO >> - "aoe: aoe_init: AoE v2.6-%s initialised.\n", >> + "aoe: aoe_init: aoe6-%s initialised.\n", >> VERSION); > > Better simply be `AoE v%s'?
That would be nice, but there's a driver for the 2.4 linux kernel that has an independent version number, so the "6" distinguishes the 2.6 aoe driver from the 2.4 aoe driver.
-- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
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