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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2022-02-25 21:14:40 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2022-02-28 00:49:23 +0300
commit451f0b6f4c44d7b649ae609157b114b71f6d7875 (patch)
tree19e10226c0541f8fca6b749533b69e2e4f89092c /block/Kconfig
parent86d7331299fda7634b11c1b7c911432679d525a5 (diff)
downloadlinux-451f0b6f4c44d7b649ae609157b114b71f6d7875.tar.xz
block: default BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD to y
As Luis reported, losetup currently doesn't properly create the loop device without this if the device node already exists because old scripts created it manually. So default to y for now and remove the aggressive removal schedule. Reported-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220225181440.1351591-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index 168b873eb666..7eb5d6d53b3f 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -28,15 +28,13 @@ if BLOCK
config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD
bool "Legacy autoloading support"
+ default y
help
Enable loading modules and creating block device instances based on
accesses through their device special file. This is a historic Linux
feature and makes no sense in a udev world where device files are
- created on demand.
-
- Say N here unless booting or other functionality broke without it, in
- which case you should also send a report to your distribution and
- linux-block@vger.kernel.org.
+ created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and
+ then call losetup might rely on this behavior.
config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
bool