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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:50:40 +0800
From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
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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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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