Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:07:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit |
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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,
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