sort out the lock order in the loop driver v2 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 1/8] cryptoloop: fix a sparse annotation · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 2/8] loop: remove the unused idx argument to loop_control_get_free · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 3/8] loop: remove the ->ioctl method in loop_func_table · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 4/8] loop: return void from the ->release method in loop_func_table · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Milan Broz <hidden> · 2021-08-26
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Milan Broz <hidden> · 2021-08-26
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-27
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> · 2021-08-27
Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-27
[PATCH 6/8] loop: devirtualize transfer transformations · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 7/8] loop: move loop device deletion out of loop_ctl_mutex · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
[PATCH 8/8] loop: avoid holding loop_ctl_mutex over add_disk · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-26
Re: sort out the lock order in the loop driver v2 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> · 2021-08-27
Re: sort out the lock order in the loop driver v2 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-27
Re: sort out the lock order in the loop driver v2 · Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> · 2021-08-27
Re: sort out the lock order in the loop driver v2 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> · 2021-08-27

Re: [PATCH 5/8] loop: merge the cryptoloop module into the main loop module

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-08-27 06:45:13

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:44:32PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:

Yes, I know that removal is far disturbing thing here, if it
can be planned for removal later, I think it is the best thing to do...

And I would like to know actually if there are existing users
(and how and why they are using this interface - it cannot be configured
through losetup for years IIRC).

We could just try to drop it entirely and see if anyone screams.  You
are probably right that no one will.

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