From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759292AbYBVQ05 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756700AbYBVQ0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:50 -0500 Received: from mail06.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.22]:34442 "HELO mail06.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755717AbYBVQ0t (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:49 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:26:48 EST From: Mark McLoughlin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, jeremy@goop.org, Mark McLoughlin Subject: [PATCH] xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:18 +0000 Message-Id: <1203697218-32064-2-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.4.2 In-Reply-To: <1203697218-32064-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> References: <1203697218-32064-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Before getting merged, xen-blkfront was xenblk and xen-netfront was xennet. Temporarily adding compatibility module aliases eases upgrades from older versions by e.g. allowing mkinitrd to find the new version of the module. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index d0d5a02..43e1188 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -999,3 +999,4 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen virtual block device frontend"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(XENVBD_MAJOR); MODULE_ALIAS("xen:vbd"); +MODULE_ALIAS("xenblk"); diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c index b3fa27e..e62018a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c @@ -1810,3 +1810,4 @@ module_exit(netif_exit); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen virtual network device frontend"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS("xen:vif"); +MODULE_ALIAS("xennet"); -- 1.5.4.2