[dm-devel] md: rename some drivers/md/ files to have an "md-" prefix

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Wed Oct 11 20:17:17 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 11 2017 at  3:53pm -0400,
Shaohua Li <shli at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:55:35PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 10 2017 at  5:29pm -0400,
> > Shaohua Li <shli at kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > > Motivated by the desire to illiminate the imprecise nature of
> > > > DM-specific patches being unnecessarily sent to both the MD maintainer
> > > > and mailing-list.  Which is born out of the fact that DM files also
> > > > reside in drivers/md/
> > > > 
> > > > Now all MD-specific files in drivers/md/ start with either "raid" or
> > > > "md-" and the MAINTAINERS file has been updated accordingly.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > Good idea! Assume I take this?
> > 
> > Yes, please do.
> 
> I'm going to fold this patch into your original one, we'd better not change the
> module name.

OK, good catch.




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