Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 08:11:30 +0200 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd |
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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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