On Fri, Oct 24 2008, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > agk> Perhaps change the register/unregister interface to make it > agk> symmetric: we always register and unregister when creating the > agk> device, then set the integrity to the appropriate value - which > agk> might include NULL - when the new table is put into place. > > It seemed wasteful to register profiles since 99%+ of all storage > devices out there that don't have a need for them. That's why I > deferred the allocation. But I guess mere mortals compile without > BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY anyway so it may not matter that much... > > Jens, what do you think? I agree, plus there are going to be lots of users running a BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY enabled kernel but not having the hardware (distros). So lazy alloc makes sense. -- Jens Axboe -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
