From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:46:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210827164637.GA26631@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7e538b3-e669-1963-b6c5-475285e96784@kernel.dk>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:43:53AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/27/21 10:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:42:59AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-27 16:32 [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 16:37 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-27 16:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 16:42 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-27 16:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 16:43 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-27 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-08-27 16:48 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-27 16:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 16:52 ` Jens Axboe
2021-08-27 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 16:57 ` Jens Axboe
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