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

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@v3.sk>

I guess module options are frowned upon. so:

Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>

cheers,
jamal