Michael Biebl wrote:
> Afaiu, the kernel default is to create one dummy device by default when
> the module is loaded.
> I assume there might be cases where users rely on that default behaviour
> without having explicitly configured anything.
Do we have any idea what their use case would be? Apparently a
different one from Baptiste's, if it's true that he needed to
explicitly configure "numdummies=1"...
> Atm, the release note entry reads like only admins who have a modprobe.d
> config are possibly affected.
That's true. I can't immediately see any way of rephrasing it without
making it much more complicated.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
