Re: [PATCH 1/3] ifb: make device count build-time configurable

From: Jamal Hadi Salim
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 07:55:28 EST


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 <lkundrak@xxxxx>

I guess module options are frowned upon. so:

Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

cheers,
jamal