Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264990AbTGCRPP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:15:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265019AbTGCRPP (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:15:15 -0400 Received: from hank-fep8-0.inet.fi ([194.251.242.203]:52949 "EHLO fep08.tmt.tele.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264990AbTGCRPN (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:15:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3F04680D.B9703696@pp.inet.fi> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:29:49 +0300 From: Jari Ruusu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.20aa1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptoloop References: <3F0411B9.9E11022D@pp.inet.fi> <20030703082034.5643b336.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 Content-Length: 850 Lines: 24 Andrew Morton wrote: > Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > > Changing that would kill all existing modules that use the loop device. > > > > > > Maybe nobody cares. Then we can do so in a subsequent patch. > > > > I care. Please don't break the transfer function prototype. > > Why? Because loop-AES attempts to be compatible with structures in loop.h by not modifying loop.h at all. This is what the "no kernel sources patched or replaced" means. Breakage in loop.h breaks loop-AES, and I have to clean the mess. Regards, Jari Ruusu - 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/