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Message-ID: <CAPXgP113jUZnUEH9tWwzgY37wwfQebPnYbVmUpJx9Mfu=MRJ6A@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:03:30 +0200 From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:18, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:17, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:50:30PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >>> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> >>> Subject: loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation >>> >>> Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8. >>> The number can only be changed at init time. To find a free device >>> to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned and all devices need to be >>> opened. >> >> It generally looks good to me but I really hope it were split into >> multiple patches. I think it's a bit too big and doing too many >> different things. Can you please split it up? > > Hmm, split into what? Like splitting the loop-control stuff off? The > rest can't really be split I guess, because all the linked lists need > to be converted to idr at once. Split it into 3 pieces, which I'll send now. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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