Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mtd: rename the redboot module to RedBoot | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:56:07 +0300 |
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On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 22:23 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote: > parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver > isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition > parser. For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser > name is "RedBoot". Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to > modprobe "RedBoot" will never work. I suspect the embedded systems that > make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading > their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in). > > Alternatives include renaming the parser to "redboot", changing > parse_mtd_partitions to accept pairs of strings, or changing modprobe > to be case-insensitive. Renaming the module seems like the easy, > obvious solution. :) > > Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> > --- > drivers/mtd/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/mtd/RedBoot.c | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/mtd/redboot.c | 315 ------------------------------------------------- > 3 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/RedBoot.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/redboot.c
Could you please use MODULE_ALIAS(RedBoot) instead?
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy
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