Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:50:40 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name |
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2006/1/5, Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>: > 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.
But 2.4 and 2.6 driver never meet each other, right?
> > -- > Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> > >
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