Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 6 authors, 2014-09-09

Re: [RFC 0/9] pmem: Support for "struct page" with Persistent Memory storage

From: Ross Zwisler <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-20 20:13:16
Also in: linux-fsdevel

On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 15:08 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
And one last Rant if I may?
I hate the prd name, why why? OK so a freak of bad luck forced us to invent a new name for
/dev/ram because it would be weird to do an lsmod and see a ram.ko hanging there which is actually
a block device driver. OK so a brd == /dev/ram. But why do we need to carry this punishment forever?
Why an additional/different name in the namespace? /dev/foo should just be foo.ko in lsmod, No?
So please, please, for my peace of mind can we call this driver pmem.ko?
I know, I would hate it if I was inventing a name and people change it, so Ross it is your call, is
it OK if we move back to just call it pmem everywhere?
Hi Boaz,

Yep, I'm fine with the rename from prd to pmem everywhere.  I've made this
change and will be pushing out an updated version to my GitHub repo shortly.

Thanks,
- Ross


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