From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:04:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705211003590.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b040c32a0705210937x3d1b8ac6wb9c8089337f5c683@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Ken Chen wrote:
>
> So I propose we do the following:
>
> 1. have the module honor "max_loop" parameter and create that many
> device upfront on module load (max_loop will also be a hard max) iff
> user specify the parameter.
> 2. if max_loop is not specified, default create 8 loop device. User
> can extent more loop device by create device node themselves and have
> kernel automatically instantiate loop device on-demand.
>
> Is this acceptable? Patch in a bit.
That sounds perfect.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 18:33 Ray Lee
2007-05-19 19:17 ` Andrey Borzenkov
[not found] ` <200705200124.13026.uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
2007-05-20 4:45 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 6:16 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 6:28 ` Al Viro
2007-05-20 6:58 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 14:52 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-20 15:26 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 15:22 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 15:54 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-20 16:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 16:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-05-20 16:10 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-20 16:16 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-20 16:29 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-20 19:53 ` Michael Mauch
2007-05-21 16:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-21 16:27 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 16:35 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-21 16:37 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 16:50 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 17:11 ` Kay Sievers
2007-05-21 17:51 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-21 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-05-21 20:48 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 21:20 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22 0:10 ` Al Viro
2007-05-22 0:13 ` Al Viro
2007-05-20 16:09 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-05-20 16:14 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-22 20:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-22 21:35 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-05-21 6:08 ` Ken Chen
2007-05-21 6:40 ` Ray Lee
2007-05-21 7:59 ` Uwe Bugla
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2007-05-19 13:53 Uwe Bugla
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