linux-kernel - Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd

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Message-ID: <20080321130552.GA28274@lst.de>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:05:52 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, npiggin@...e.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd

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.
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