From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] dummy: make device count build-time configurable
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:42:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160112104247.1004c32c@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452599853-27399-1-git-send-email-lkundrak@v3.sk>
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:57:33 +0100
Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> wrote:
> The devices can be created at run-time for quite some time already and the
> load-time device creation collides with attempts to create the device of
> the same name:
>
> # rmmod dummy
> # ip link add dummy0 type dummy
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists
>
> This is pretty much the same situation as was with the block loop devices
> which was solved by adding a build-time configuration that the
> distributions could use as they deem fit while keeping the default for
> compatibility.
>
> Let's do that here as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
There is already a module parameter for this, so making it a compile
time option adds nothing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-12 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 11:57 [PATCH 2/3] dummy: make device count build-time configurable Lubomir Rintel
2016-01-12 18:42 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-02-05 15:09 ` Lubomir Rintel
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