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| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | block/bdev.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 168b873eb666..7eb5d6d53b3f 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -28,15 +28,13 @@ if BLOCK config BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD bool "Legacy autoloading support" + default y 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. + created on demand, but scripts that manually create device nodes and + then call losetup might rely on this behavior. config BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME bool diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c index c68772644566..a3632317c8aa 100644 --- a/block/bdev.c +++ b/block/bdev.c @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_no_open(dev_t dev) inode = ilookup(blockdev_superblock, dev); if (inode) pr_warn_ratelimited( -"block device autoloading is deprecated. It will be removed in Linux 5.19\n"); +"block device autoloading is deprecated and will be removed.\n"); } if (!inode) return NULL; |