Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:09:55 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd |
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On Wednesday 2008-05-28 08:11, Nick Piggin wrote:
>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?
Just add a MODULE_ALIAS("rd").
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