Re: [PATCH for-5.14] cryptoloop: add a deprecation warning

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On 8/27/21 10:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Support for cryptoloop has been officially marked broken and deprecated
> in favor of dm-crypt (which supports the same broken algorithms if
> needed) in Linux 2.6.4 (released in March 2004), and support for it has
> been entirely removed from losetup in util-linux 2.23 (released in April
> 2013).  Add a warning and a deprecation schedule.

Would probably look better to queue with the 5.15 patches at this point.
Which then begs the question of whether we want to make the removal
target 5.17 instead.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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