From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4A2C432BE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:40:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB39C60F14 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229854AbhH0Qlm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:41:42 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:34539 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229560AbhH0Qlm (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:41:42 -0400 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 85A1467373; Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:40:51 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-block@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning Message-ID: <20210827164051.GA26147@lst.de> References: <20210827163250.255325-1-hch@lst.de> <59808096-34ff-151f-b7a2-f53d4262f00a@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59808096-34ff-151f-b7a2-f53d4262f00a@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:37:41AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 8/27/21 10:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Support for cryptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated > > in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if > > needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has > > been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April > > 2013). Add a warning and a deprecation schedule. > > Would probably look better to queue with the 5.15 patches at this point. > Which then begs the question of whether we want to make the removal > target 5.17 instead. File locking also just managed to sneak in a short-term deprecation for a very similar situation.