linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] brd: RAM block module is called 'brd'

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:14:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] brd: RAM block module is called 'brd'


On Tuesday 2012-08-21 17:10, Paul Bolle wrote:
>
>2) "modinfo rd" doesn't work. Apparently one needs to feed modinfo the
>actual module name and not an alias. Is that by design?

I would say so, because you can call

	modprobe --resolve-alias rd

to figure out the actual module to any given string. If this
modprobe call returns nothing, you know you found the terminal name.
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