From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:26:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:26:37 -0400 Received: from hank-fep8-0.inet.fi ([194.251.242.203]:24990 "EHLO fep08.tmt.tele.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 20:26:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3B183297.4D8F77F0@pp.inet.fi> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 03:25:59 +0300 From: Jari Ruusu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19aa2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: L Larssen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: international patches from kerneli far behind In-Reply-To: <20010601201659.9930.qmail@nwcst337.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org L Larssen wrote: > Sorry if this subject does not fit in this list. > I am a bit worried about the development of the international kernel patches > from kerneli.org. > > These patches are getting far behind on the real kernel distributions. > At this moment the latest patches are 2.2.18.3 and 2.4.3.1 while the kernel at > now is at 2.2.19 and 2.4.5. > > There is now news to the public why these patches are falling behind. > > I hope more people are consirned about this. International crypto patch is misdesigned and broken, period. Block device drivers are supposed handle varying transfer sizes, international crypto patch doesn't. Loop device transfers are supposed to be re-entrant, international crypto patch transfers are not. Summary: international crypto patch will corrupt your data. Avoid using it. If you don't want to play russian roulette with your data, you should consider using loop-AES package. loop-AES announcement is here: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2001-05/msg00003.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-crypto&m=98923954103730&w=2 Regards, Jari Ruusu