Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc7] aoe [4/7]: use less confusing driver name

Coywolf Qi Hunt <[email protected]> writes:

> 2006/1/4, Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]>:
>> Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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.

-- 
  Ed L Cashin <[email protected]>

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