Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964876AbWADRX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965121AbWADRXz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:23:55 -0500 Received: from ns1.coraid.com ([65.14.39.133]:11222 "EHLO coraid.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964876AbWADRXy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:23:54 -0500 To: Coywolf Qi Hunt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name References: <87hd8l2fb4.fsf@coraid.com> <871wzp10lm.fsf@coraid.com> <2cd57c900601032202y3de62e78m@mail.gmail.com> From: Ed L Cashin Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:31:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900601032202y3de62e78m@mail.gmail.com> (Coywolf Qi Hunt's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:02:18 +0800") Message-ID: <87mziclztq.fsf@coraid.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 34 Coywolf Qi Hunt writes: > 2006/1/4, Ed L. Cashin : >> Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" >> >> 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. -- Ed L Cashin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/