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

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:44:37 -0800

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:55:22 -0500
Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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 <[email-masked]>
> 
> I guess module options are frowned upon. so:

I would prefer that this were done with a module parameter, the same as dummy.
Only developers build their own configured kernels. Having the value set later
at module load time is preferable.