Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit

[Ken Chen]

On 3/30/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

probably, if they access loop device non-sequentially.


> I don't know how much of a problem this will be in practice - do people use
> max_loop much?

I don't know either.


> btw, did you test this change as both a module and as linked-into-vmlinux?

as linked-into-vmlinux.  why do you ask?  It breaks if it is module?
I made last minute change to a mutex name and shamely posted without
doing a compile test.  Besides that, is there something else breaks?

- Ken
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