Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: provide an alias for the redboot module name

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Sun Oct 16 2011 - 08:04:23 EST


On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 07:33 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> parse_mtd_partitions takes a list of partition types; if the driver
> isn't loaded, it attempts to load it, and then it grabs the partition
> parser. For redboot, the module name is "redboot.ko", while the parser
> name is "RedBoot". Since modprobe is case-sensitive, attempting to
> modprobe "RedBoot" will never work. I suspect the embedded systems that
> make use of redboot just always manually loaded redboot prior to loading
> their specific nand chip drivers (or statically compiled it in).
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/mtd/redboot.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> v2: instead of renaming the module, use a module_alias. Duh. Thanks,
> Artem Bityutskiy!

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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