Re: [PATCH 2/2] brd: RAM block module is called 'brd'

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 01:14:48 EST



On Tuesday 2012-08-21 17:10, Paul Bolle wrote:
>
>2) "modinfo rd" doesn't work. Apparently one needs to feed modinfo the
>actual module name and not an alias. Is that by design?

I would say so, because you can call

modprobe --resolve-alias rd

to figure out the actual module to any given string. If this
modprobe call returns nothing, you know you found the terminal name.
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