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

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

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:

Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>

cheers,
jamal