From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266527AbUG0T7R (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:59:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266546AbUG0T7R (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:59:17 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:1036 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266535AbUG0T7O (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:59:14 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete cryptoloop Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:02:09 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <1090672906.8587.66.camel@ghanima> <20040724095245.73ca26fe.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1090958022 18459 192.168.12.100 (27 Jul 2004 19:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040724095245.73ca26fe.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Fruhwirth Clemens wrote: > >>So much for cryptoloop. > > > I think I'd rather add a patch which does printk("cryptoloop will be > removed from Linux on June 30, 2005. Please migrate to dm-crypt") A number of things in 2.4 were left alone until 2.6, other than getting lots of people to stay with old kernels why do you object to waiting to remove this feature in 2.7? "mount ~/mycrypt" is simple enough for a user to use, dm-crypt is not remotely easy to use, not to mention that the tools all need to be added to the install on every machine. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me