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

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Message-Id: <20070331104144.46c85f27.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:41:44 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>,
	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 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:07:43 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:

> 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@...gle.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.  In that case I think we should retain the max_loop module parameter
for now.

Ken, when you respin that patch could you restore max_loop, and make its
use trigger a warning along the lines of "loop: the max_loop option is obsolete
and will be removed in March 2008"?
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