Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264893AbTGCQeZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:34:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264953AbTGCQK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:10:58 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:6160 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264930AbTGCQGT (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:06:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:20:42 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoloop Message-ID: <20030703172042.A10499@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:44:18PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 15 On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:44:18PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > and this transfer function then immediately goes from (addr,len) > > to (page/offset/len). That's rather silly .. > > Changing that would kill all existing modules that use the loop device. I don't think that matters. This is 2.5 and APIs tend to change in unstable series :) Do you know of any users except the various cryptoloop implementations? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/