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SubjectRe: [patch] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry
Nathan Scott wrote:
> This patch makes the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel
> compilation time rather than only at boot or module load time,
> like a couple of the other ramdisk options. I found this handy
> awhile back but thought little of it, until recently asked by a
> few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same thing
> for their automated test setups.
>
> The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c,
> and hopefully this will increase the chances of making folks
> aware that the default value often isn't a great choice here
> (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even moreso).

This seems a bit odd to me... the sizes of most block devices is set by
the filesystem, not hard-coded; the need for this implies something more
fundamental is wrong.

-hpa


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