Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mark McLoughlin <> | Subject | [PATCH] xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers | Date | Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:18 +0000 |
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Before getting merged, xen-blkfront was xenblk and xen-netfront was xennet.
Temporarily adding compatibility module aliases eases upgrades from older versions by e.g. allowing mkinitrd to find the new version of the module.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> --- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 1 + drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c index d0d5a02..43e1188 100644 --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c @@ -999,3 +999,4 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen virtual block device frontend"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(XENVBD_MAJOR); MODULE_ALIAS("xen:vbd"); +MODULE_ALIAS("xenblk"); diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c index b3fa27e..e62018a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c @@ -1810,3 +1810,4 @@ module_exit(netif_exit); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen virtual network device frontend"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS("xen:vif"); +MODULE_ALIAS("xennet"); -- 1.5.4.2
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