Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:07:43 -0700 Greg KH <greg@kroah.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@google.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use trigger a warning along the lines of "loop: the max_loop option is obsolete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"?