On 8/27/21 10:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. But what's the point? Why not just wait for 5.15, it's not like we're in a mad dash to get it removed. -- Jens Axboe
