From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759502Ab3LHRTG (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:19:06 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:56353 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754982Ab3LHRTD (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:19:03 -0500 Message-ID: <52A4AA04.6040507@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 09:19:00 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabian Frederick , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: npiggin@gmail.com, axboe , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAM block device support module name update in Kconfig References: <20131206213845.c2fc58a65acd990b97794414@skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <20131206213845.c2fc58a65acd990b97794414@skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/06/13 05:38, Fabian Frederick wrote: > RAM block device support module name changed to brd.ko > some years ago with an "rd" alias to match previous module implementation. > This patch updates its Kconfig definition. > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick I haven't seen any activity from Nick lately. Let's Cc: Jens and Andrew. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. > --- > drivers/block/Kconfig | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig > index 86b9f37..9ffa90c 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig > @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ config BLK_DEV_RAM > For details, read . > > To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > - module will be called rd. > + module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined > + for historical reasons. > > Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can > thus say N here. > -- -- ~Randy