From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is the rewritten ramdisk driver called brd instad of rd
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:11:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080528061130.GB16441@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211880480.29836.11.camel@elijah.suse.cz>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 13:05 Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-27 9:28 ` Petr Tesarik
2008-05-28 6:11 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-06-03 11:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-04 15:18 ` Nick Piggin
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