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SubjectRe: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit
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,

greg k-h
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