From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:37:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59808096-34ff-151f-b7a2-f53d4262f00a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210827163250.255325-1-hch@lst.de>
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.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 16:37 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 [this message]
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
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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