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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] dummy: make device count build-time configurable
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Hi Stephen,

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 10:42 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:57:33 +0100
> Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> wrote:
>
> > The devices can be created at run-time for quite some time already
> > and the
> > load-time device creation collides with attempts to create the
> > device of
> > the same name:
> >
> >   # rmmod dummy
> >   # ip link add dummy0 type dummy
> >   RTNETLINK answers: File exists
> >
> > This is pretty much the same situation as was with the block loop
> > devices
> > which was solved by adding a build-time configuration that the
> > distributions could use as they deem fit while keeping the default
> > for
> > compatibility.
> >
> > Let's do that here as well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
>
> There is already a module parameter for this, so making it a compile
> time option adds nothing.

This option changes the defaults for the parameter.

When the module gets autoloaded, the user doesn't get a chance to
specify the module parameter and unwanted devices pop in.

Worse even, the automatically created devices are likely to collide
with what the user asked for.

Lubo

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