Re: [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning

On 8/27/21 10:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:43:53AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

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On 8/27/21 10:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:42:59AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

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But what's the point? Why not just wait for 5.15, it's not like we're
in a mad dash to get it removed.

Actually we kinda are :)

Because?

It causes trouble by interacting with the actual loop driver people
use in really weird ways, while beeing broken and not actually supported
by userspace tools for about a decade.

I don't disagree with that, but that's not a new situation. Hence my
question on why there's this sudden mad rush to get it queued up for
removal, literally a few days before a kernel release.

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Jens Axboe