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

Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-03T11:10:07Z

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").