From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Michal Kwolek <miho@centrum.cz>,
jmorris@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:46:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040215194633.A8948@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076873760.21477.8.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net>; from christophe@saout.de on Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:36:00PM +0100
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote:
> The only reason, I guess, is that it depends on this very small
> dm-daemon thing:
> http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.2/2.6.2-udm1/00016.patch
>
> Some other dm targets in the unstable tree use this too, it's just to
> have very simple bottom-half processing in a separate thread with
> synchronous start and stop functions.
>
> Especially since dm-crypt was announced in a german linux magazine two
> weeks ago people keep asking me when to expect it in the kernel. And to
> delay it for some months just because there might be changes to
> dm-daemon, which would be almost trivial, is a stupid reason to hold it
> back if you ask me. :(
Well, actually the above code should not enter the kernel tree at all.
Care to rewrite dm-crypt to use Rusty's kthread code in -mm instead and
submit a patch to Andrew? Whenever he merges the kthread stuff to mainline
he could just include dm-crypt then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-15 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-11 15:33 Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.* Michal Kwolek
2004-02-11 18:41 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-15 2:35 ` Jan Rychter
2004-02-15 14:51 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-15 16:38 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-16 0:26 ` James Morris
2004-02-18 14:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-16 12:22 ` Jan Rychter
2004-02-17 14:09 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-17 19:14 ` Jan Rychter
2004-02-18 14:06 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-18 21:40 ` Jan Rychter
2004-02-19 13:34 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-02-11 22:54 ` bill davidsen
2004-02-15 17:34 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-15 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-15 18:42 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-15 18:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-15 19:36 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-15 19:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-02-15 20:24 ` kthread vs. dm-daemon (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Christophe Saout
2004-02-15 22:13 ` kthread vs. dm-daemon Mike Christie
2004-02-16 0:04 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 1:04 ` Mike Christie
2004-02-16 1:29 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 3:02 ` kthread vs. dm-daemon (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Rusty Russell
2004-02-16 13:27 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 16:42 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 13:48 ` Joe Thornber
2004-02-16 1:44 ` dm-crypt using kthread " Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 1:53 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-16 2:07 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-02-16 3:03 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 3:22 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-02-16 4:05 ` dm-crypt using kthread Jeff Garzik
2004-02-16 4:14 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-02-16 10:15 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 9:54 ` dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Christophe Saout
2004-03-01 22:18 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-03-01 22:51 ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-01 23:22 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-02-16 2:58 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 7:28 ` David Wagner
2004-02-16 10:11 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-18 14:15 ` dm-crypt using kthread Bill Davidsen
2004-02-16 2:07 ` dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Andrew Morton
2004-02-16 2:17 ` dm-crypt using kthread Jeff Garzik
2004-02-16 2:53 ` dm-crypt using kthread (was: Oopsing cryptoapi (or loop device?) on 2.6.*) Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 2:10 ` dm-crypt using kthread Jeff Garzik
2004-02-16 2:40 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 2:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-16 3:10 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 13:04 ` Christophe Saout
2004-02-16 19:09 ` Jeff Garzik
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