From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:50:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c900601041650j6b3e7ea6u@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mziclztq.fsf@coraid.com>
2006/1/5, Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>:
> Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 2006/1/4, Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>:
> >> Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
> >>
> >> Users were confused by the driver being called "aoe-2.6-$version".
> >> This form looks less like a Linux kernel version number.
> >>
> >> Index: 2.6.15-rc7-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- 2.6.15-rc7-aoe.orig/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c 2006-01-02 13:35:13.000000000 -0500
> >> +++ 2.6.15-rc7-aoe/drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c 2006-01-02 13:35:14.000000000 -0500
> >> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
> >> }
> >>
> >> printk(KERN_INFO
> >> - "aoe: aoe_init: AoE v2.6-%s initialised.\n",
> >> + "aoe: aoe_init: aoe6-%s initialised.\n",
> >> VERSION);
> >
> > Better simply be `AoE v%s'?
>
> That would be nice, but there's a driver for the 2.4 linux kernel that
> has an independent version number, so the "6" distinguishes the 2.6
> aoe driver from the 2.4 aoe driver.
But 2.4 and 2.6 driver never meet each other, right?
>
> --
> Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
>
>
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-03 21:05 [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [1/7]: zero packet data after skb allocation Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [2/7]: support dynamic resizing of AoE devices Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-03 21:07 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [3/7]: increase allowed outstanding packets Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-03 21:08 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-04 6:02 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-04 16:31 ` Ed L Cashin
2006-01-05 0:50 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2006-01-05 16:35 ` Ed L Cashin
2006-01-03 21:08 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [5/7]: allow network interface migration on packet retransmit Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-03 21:08 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [6/7]: update device information on last close Ed L. Cashin
2006-01-03 21:08 ` [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [7/7]: update driver version number Ed L. Cashin
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