CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD: Legacy autoloading support

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD:

• prompt: Legacy autoloading support
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in block/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.18–5.19, 6.0–6.12, 6.13-rc+HEAD

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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, but scripts that manually create device nodes and then call losetup might rely on this behavior.

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