Subject: Re: pseudo-device `rd' renamed to `md'
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/04/1997 00:32:18
> On Sun, 29 Dec 1996 05:36:47 -0500 
>  Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > RAMDISK_HOOKS => MEMORY_DISK_HOOKS, you mean?
> 
> ...that too, but AFAIK, that's an alpha port thing :-)

I certainly hope not, since:

	(1) it's used by the alpha, arm32, atari, pc532, and sun3
	    ports,

	(2) it's existed since revision 1.1 of the file, and

	(3) if i'd picked the name, it'd have been "RAMDISK_ROOT", so
	    that it's be a bit more obvious what was going on, because
	    as far as i know, it's not ever used except to set up
	    root ramdisk file systems.


cgd