On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:34:15PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > I posted "[PATCH] loop: break loop_ctl_mutex into loop_idr_spinlock and loop_removal_mutex" Well, you hid it somewhere deep inside a mail deep in a thread. If you want proper patch review and actually post it as a patch. > which reduces the locking complexity while fixing bugs, but you ignored it. Instead, No, it doesn't. Adding even more locks does not reduce complexity. > you decided to remove cryptoloop module (where userspace doing "modprobe cryptoloop" > will break). Did you try it? Because on my system it works just fine thanks to the MODULE_ALIAS(). > That is, you decided not to provide patches which can be backported. Please stop this bullshit.