From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] loop.c - part 1 of many
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:17:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030623151740.A25703@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200306230859.h5N8xZ811407.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:59:35AM +0200
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:59:35AM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >>> IMHO we should replace it with a by-name selection
>
> >> That is what CryptoAPI does
>
> > CryptoAPI did _not_ replace it but add another level of indirection
>
> Right. That is backwards compatibility for you.
The only backwards-compatiblity we care for in mainline is
XOR and special-casing that is trivial, we don't even need to support
anything else with the by magic number ioctl. In fact I wonder
whether we should care for X0R - I know of exactly one real-life use...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-23 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-23 8:59 [PATCH] loop.c - part 1 of many Andries.Brouwer
2003-06-23 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2003-06-23 8:47 Andries.Brouwer
2003-06-23 8:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-23 8:40 Andries.Brouwer
2003-06-23 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-23 1:27 Andries.Brouwer
2003-06-23 1:47 ` viro
2003-06-23 5:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
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