From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christian Franke <cfchris6@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc2] block: loop device partition support
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:43:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489D1257.1040204@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489CEADE.4030905@yahoo.de>
Christian Franke wrote:
> From: Christian Franke <cfchris6@yahoo.de>
>
> By default, partition support of loop devices is disabled and there
> seems to be no way to turn it on without changing code, if loop is not
> compiled as module.
> This patch introduces CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MAXPART to make partition
> support configurable via Kconfig. It keeps that feature disabled by
> default for not breaking backward compatibility.
The right thing would be to have a backwards compatiblity major and a
new major; similar to how the md device handles it.
-hpa
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2008-08-09 0:54 [PATCH 2.6.27-rc2] block: loop device partition support Christian Franke
2008-08-09 3:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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