Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:41:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit |
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:07:43 -0700 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:15:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:25:37 -0700 > > "Ken Chen" <kenchen@google.com> wrote: > > > > > -module_param(max_loop, int, 0); > > > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_loop, "Maximum number of loop devices (1-256)"); > > > > So.. this change will cause a fatal error for anyone who is presently > > using max_loop, won't it? If they're doing that within their > > initramfs/initrd/etc then things could get rather ugly for them. > > > > I don't know how much of a problem this will be in practice - do people use > > max_loop much? > > Yes, the distros do, and they recommend it to their users a lot.
Thanks. In that case I think we should retain the max_loop module parameter for now.
Ken, when you respin that patch could you restore max_loop, and make its use trigger a warning along the lines of "loop: the max_loop option is obsolete and will be removed in March 2008"? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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