linux-kernel - Re: [patch] remove artificial software max

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:06:03 -0700
From:	"Ken Chen" <kenchen@...gle.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

On 3/30/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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.

probably, if they access loop device non-sequentially.


> I don't know how much of a problem this will be in practice - do people use
> max_loop much?

I don't know either.


> btw, did you test this change as both a module and as linked-into-vmlinux?

as linked-into-vmlinux.  why do you ask?  It breaks if it is module?
I made last minute change to a mutex name and shamely posted without
doing a compile test.  Besides that, is there something else breaks?

- Ken
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