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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806031309350.4055@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:09:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd


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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