From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761069AbcALMzZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:55:25 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f194.google.com ([209.85.223.194]:35536 "EHLO mail-io0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbcALMzX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:55:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ifb: make device count build-time configurable To: Lubomir Rintel , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1452599804-27284-1-git-send-email-lkundrak@v3.sk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" From: Jamal Hadi Salim Message-ID: <5694F7BA.3040402@mojatatu.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:55:22 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1452599804-27284-1-git-send-email-lkundrak@v3.sk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 16-01-12 06:56 AM, Lubomir Rintel 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 ifb > # ip link add ifb0 type ifb > 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 I guess module options are frowned upon. so: Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim cheers, jamal