Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265074AbTGCRZC (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:25:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265079AbTGCRZC (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:25:02 -0400 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:42393 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265074AbTGCRYw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:24:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3F046A30.6080509@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:38:56 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jari Ruusu Cc: Andrew Morton , 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> <3F04680D.B9703696@pp.inet.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1011 Lines: 27 Jari Ruusu wrote: > 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. We're in a development stream. It is kind of expected that in-kernel APIs may change if the developers feel it will lead to some improvement. This sucks for people that are trying to track those APIs with out-of-kernel patches, but its a fact of life. Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - 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/