[PATCH] block: default BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD to y

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

As Luis reported, losetup currently doesn't properly create the loop
device without this if the device node already exists because old
scripts created it manually.  So default to y for now and remove the
aggressive removal schedule.

Reported-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 block/Kconfig | 8 +++-----
 block/bdev.c  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index 168b873eb666d..7eb5d6d53b3fc 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -28,15 +28,13 @@ if BLOCK
 
 config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
 	bool "Legacy autoloading support"
+	default y
 	help
 	  Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on
 	  accesses through their device special file.  This is a historic Linux
 	  feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are
-	  created on demand.
-
-	  Say N here unless booting or other functionality broke without it, in
-	  which case you should also send a report to your distribution and
-	  linux-block@vger.kernel.org.
+	  created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and
+	  then call losetup might rely on this behavior.
 
 config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
 	bool
diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index c687726445660..a3632317c8aae 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_no_open(dev_t dev)
 		inode = ilookup(blockdev_superblock, dev);
 		if (inode)
 			pr_warn_ratelimited(
-"block device autoloading is deprecated. It will be removed in Linux 5.19\n");
+"block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.\n");
 	}
 	if (!inode)
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.30.2