From 4f93f09b72d6ff47b2399b79ed6d1cbc7dbf991b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 10:54:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 1 +
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
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");
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