Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 07:33 -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).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/redboot.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> v2: instead of renaming the module, use a module_alias.  Duh.  Thanks,
> Artem Bityutskiy!

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy