On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:37:41AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. File locking also just managed to sneak in a short-term deprecation for a very similar situation.
