From d134b00b9acca3fb054d7c88a5f5d562ecbb42d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:08:04 +0200 Subject: loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services, even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0 loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic /dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free devices. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 717d6e4..57212c5 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -256,6 +256,21 @@ config BLK_DEV_LOOP Most users will answer N here. +config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT + int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time" + depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP + default 8 + help + Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created + at init time. + + This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command + line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop. + + The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8) + is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be + dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface. + config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP tristate "Cryptoloop Support" select CRYPTO -- cgit v1.1