Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems wrote:
>
>> The "bd" driver will be used as a block-oriented device driver for devices
>> that need general block device support.
>> Because we might in the future like to offers support for some of
>> these storage adapters on Solaris 10, we are requesting Patch binding,
>> although we have no specific plans to backport at this time.
>>
>
> "bd" is an unfortunate driver name as a very very different bd driver shipped
> with SunOS 4 through Solaris 10, for the ancient SunButtons & SunDials input
> devices. (See bd(7M) on a Solaris 10 or older system.)
>
> While that wouldn't be a stopper on Nevada (though it might be confusing to
> those who upgrade), it would seem to block backporting to S10.
>
>
Wow, not sure how I missed that!
I'll change the name... the kernel module name will change "blkdev".
However all other symbols and names will remain unchanged. (I should
have figured it was too easy to use a two character name here! :-p )
(If people are really bothered by this, I could also change the name to
"gbd" -- for "generic block device", and change the symbols to gbd_xx
and DKC_GBD. I'm disclined to do that at the moment, however.)
-- Garrett
