linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: rename the redboot module to RedBoot

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Date:	Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:56:07 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rename the redboot module to RedBoot

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 22:23 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver
> isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition
> parser.  For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser
> name is "RedBoot".  Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to
> modprobe "RedBoot" will never work.  I suspect the embedded systems that
> make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading
> their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in).
> 
> Alternatives include renaming the parser to "redboot", changing
> parse_mtd_partitions to accept pairs of strings, or changing modprobe
> to be case-insensitive.  Renaming the module seems like the easy,
> obvious solution. :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/Makefile  |    2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/RedBoot.c |  315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/mtd/redboot.c |  315 -------------------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 316 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/RedBoot.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/redboot.c

Could you please use MODULE_ALIAS(RedBoot) instead?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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