From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263258AbTJaMPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:15:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263259AbTJaMPI (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:15:08 -0500 Received: from ultra12.almamedia.fi ([193.209.83.38]:61378 "EHLO ultra12.almamedia.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263258AbTJaMPF (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:15:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA25246.16257890@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:15:02 +0200 From: Jari Ruusu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.22aa1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: sluskyb@paranoiacs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove useless highmem bounce from loop/cryptoloop References: <20031030134137.GD12147@fukurou.paranoiacs.org> <3FA15506.B9B76A5D@users.sourceforge.net> <20031030133000.6a04febf.akpm@osdl.org> 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 Andrew Morton wrote: > Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Cryptoapi interface is quite broken. Your change extends that breakage to > > loop transfer interface. Please don't do that. > > Please describe this breakage. It is broken because it includes kmaps. kmaps may be required evil thing that is currectly required, but in long term kmaps deserve fate of DOS EMS. Less interfaces that include that damage, the better. Please don't include that damage in loop transfer interface. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD