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

Nick Piggin
2008-05-28T06:11:44Z

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?