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 <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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 @@
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