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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2022-01-04 08:16:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2022-02-02 07:49:58 -0700 |
| commit | fbdee71bb5d8d054e1bdb5af4c540f2cb86fe296 (patch) | |
| tree | 46cfbed71aa40374f489df96373d2b96fcf1e0f5 /block/Kconfig | |
| parent | 26291c54e111ff6ba87a164d85d4a4e134b7315c (diff) | |
block: deprecate autoloading based on dev_t
Make the legacy dev_t based autoloading optional and add a deprecation
warning. This kind of autoloading has ceased to be useful about 20 years
ago.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220104071647.164918-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index d5d4197b7ed2..205f8d01c695 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ menuconfig BLOCK if BLOCK +config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD + bool "Legacy autoloading support" + 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. + config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME bool |