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DateWed, 28 May 2008 08:11:30 +0200
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:28:00AM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:05 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Any reason why the rewritten ramdisk driver has a new name?  It's for
> > all matters an inplace replacement of the old rd driver so it should
> > be called rd.c / rd.ko to not confused instaler/developers/etc.
> 
> I think it's because the old rd played some dirty tricks with the page
> cache, while the reworked one is a straightforward implementation of a
> normal _b_lock device -> hence the "b".
> 
> No guarantee of correctness.

Yeah it was a rwrite from scratch and it lived with the rd.c code for
a while (although maybe never in mainline). I guess it might be good
idea to rename it back to rd?


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