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authorMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>2008-04-02 10:54:06 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-24 23:57:33 +0200
commit4f93f09b72d6ff47b2399b79ed6d1cbc7dbf991b (patch)
tree8f29c6914c3c9a8932c1dc715376034663b8511d
parentxen: Module autoprobing support for frontend drivers (diff)
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xen: Add compatibility aliases for frontend drivers
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> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netfront.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index ffa0b436129b..d771da816d95 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -1016,3 +1016,4 @@ 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 b3fa27e6c78a..e62018a36133 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");