Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:09:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
       torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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